SIN FRONTERAS

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has granted SIN FRONTERAS the following:

• 1993, 1994, 1995 Excellence Award
• 1996 Award of Superior
• 1997 Highest Award
• 1998 Award of Superior
• 1999 Excellence Award
• 2000 Highest Award
• 2001 Highest Award

SIN FRONTERAS
Volume XII, Number 2, June 2002

©2002 by The American School Foundation of Guadalajara, A.C. Colomos 2100 Guadalajara, Jalisco MEXICO APDO. 6280 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photography, recording, or any information storage, and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

EDITOR'S NOTE

Many Sin Fronteras generations have gone by. Looking at past staff pictures will always bring back memories of those who we once saw as the high school students, the grown ups on the other half of our school who sat in the grass reading and writing, making editorial notes. We can barely remember how we got to this place today, how we grew up and suddenly became members of that select group. Its not easy tracing the path we took to get to this place today; the journey during which we grew up and suddenly became members of the select few that worked on the magazine. But we are now editors of this magazine which once "belonged" to them. It is now we, along with other of our friends, who in this year, have known all (and perhaps too much) about deadlines, writers' block, revisions and all that which comes along with editorial work. Yet there is no greater satisfaction than that of seeing "our" magazine bound and completed, ready to be held by the hands of others. Others who will first flip through the pages as we used to do, looking at the pictures and quotes, and later indulging in the written works and introspective minds of the published writers.

The printed contents of this magazine encompass those nights in which the writers' pens began to move across the lined paper, or nights in which the computer's keys would click interminably, until our thoughts and words were exhausted, until the weight of a stressful week had been transcribed into words. Sin Fronteras strives to capture the essence of what lies confined in the space between ourselves and the written expression of our thoughts. The published pieces have been carefully selected to serve this exact purpose. In each of the pieces, whether about jamming sailboats, Arabian desert horses or nights of conversing stars, the authors have "cut" part of themselves and "pasted" them into this magazine, revealing their insights to the reader and making note of the advancing journey of their lives. Many times, we are surprised with what comes out of our own minds, what we write and with what we end up revealing to ourselves. Writing has been a personal therapy that frees us from our own boundaries, which are always the hardest to overcome.

The entire magazine has been designed to allow the freedom of the reader's mind. We avoided boundaries in its creation; we allowed the strings of the guitar on the cover to lead us through with no apparent endpoint. Yet we have reached the goal line, and we knew the final outcome was what we'd always been expecting. We hope that this issue will have an equally rewarding effect on you.

In music and in literature, silences are more important than sound, but one must be aware of their presence. May you make Sin Fronteras a vehicle with which to travel through the unexpressed silences of your mind. Relax and enjoy the journey.



Sincerely,

Martha Anguiano Ramos	Alina Sofia Silva R.

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