Life In Cancun

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The life in Cancun isn’t just like you see it when you go for a vacation to a hotel or a resort. When you go to Cancun, it is the most beautiful place ever, as soon as you get down from the plane, you look around and you are surrounded by trees, and you can even hear the waves in the ocean. You have the people from the resort waiting for you in a big van and they grab your bags and take to wherever your resort is. On the way there, it’s just so beautiful and everyone is so friendly, and there is a lot of Americans down there as well. Once you get to the resort, as soon as you go in you feel like you are in paradise, which you are, kind of. You get the keys to your room, they take your bags, every meal is free, well something like that because …show more content…

So we asked him how much he would make working here, because even my brother and I would love to work at the resort. Then he said “about $1000 pesos a week”, We were all in shock, and just looked at each other. In dollars is like making less than 100 dollars a week and providing for your wife and kids, just like Johnson, how can you even do that? Like I said, life in Cancun is not how it looks like, you go down to 5th Avenue, which is like the main thing in Downtown Cancun, and you see a lot of selling all around, massages, ice cream, anything they can make or do, can you imagine how much they get for that? And still have to provide for family? We go from here with dollars, and you turn them into pesos and you have a lot more money in Mexico, plus things in Cancun aren’t cheap, because they manage dollars as well everything is more expensive than other parts in Mexico. Even though my brother and I got some pretty funny comments walking down that avenue like “I’ll give you the massage for free and throw in some extra” & “can I touch your arms?” and a lot more. But you still kind of put yourself in their shoes and think to yourself like “man I got it so

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