Finding Community in Mexico

Let me start with a hard confession: Before coming to Mexico I imagined a country full of traffic, people, and dust. Growing up in the United States provided me with a very slanted view of Mexico and the people who live there. The media, whether it be the news or television shows, portrays our neighboring country as unstable, filled with illicit drugs and desperate people. Please hear me when I say that cannot be farther from the truth. Sure, there may be specific places that reflect that, but no country should be judged based solely on what we see on the internet...