I'm going to Mexico!!

I'm going to Mexico tomorrow and stay in Puerto Vallarta, a resort town on the west coast. I have no idea what it's going to be like... is it just going to be like a boring colorless resort place full of tourists that will look nothing like Mexico? I hope not.. but it probably will... but but but I will try to explore the town with my big fat backpack and eat REAL(?) Mexican burritos and tacos!
I hope it will be sunny all the time, but the weather says it will shower everyday while I will be staying there... that super sucks... because I want to get tan in my bathing suit and look like a REAL Californian Japanese American girl before going back to Japan!

楽しみ！

^_^

Linguistics - useful or useless?

So, I graduated from UCSC with B.A. of Linguistics!
I technically finished my "studying abroad". wow... time goes so fast... it's been already four years since I started studying abroad in the US...
it's time to look for jobs with this college degree. well, I want to teach Japanese while I'm staying here and get experienced in teaching. After I go back to Japan, I want to teach English. I wonder if what I learned in studying linguistics will be useful in teaching English as a second language (or as one of the subjects) in Japan? Maybe it will.. but I don't think any English teacher back in Japan made linguistic-linguistic explanations in teaching English..? but maybe explaining some English grammatical functions by using "easy" linguistics would make more sense to students than just by using "this is this.. because this is what it is in English grammar" explanations... But, who in highschool or junior-high school wants to know (or can understand that hard) linguistic reasons/explanations in learning English? (maybe a few who have potential to become a future nerdy linguistic mania get interested..) Still, I think knowing linguistics or having some background in working on linguistics would help to answer some innocent students' "pop" questions. Anyways, it's always better knowing too much than too little in that kind of situation even if I might look "nerdy and geeky" to students...
If I go to graduate school, I don't think I will want to major in linguistics again.. but I will probably (maybe?) keep reviewing the linguistic stuff I learned in this college while studying English!