My memories as a tourist guide working at the museum of the mayan culture.

Abstract

In this final paper you will find my memories as a tour guide at the Museum of the Mayan Culture in Chetumal and my advice for the students of the English Language Major who work as tour guides at the same place. The reason to relate my memories is because I neither had the adequate training as a tour guide, nor had a good level of English when I started with this job. Therefore, there were some difficulties I faced, such as the fact that I ignored many historical aspects about Mayan culture, and that I had no information about the main characteristics of Creole English from Belize. Several groups of students who arrived at the museum willing to know about Mayan culture were from Belize so they spoke Creole English. Sometimes they did make me feel embarrassed for not understanding what they said. Besides that, I did not know how to give a speech to a group of people neither how to deal with different kind of people. However, I did know how to deal with children; eventhough they required a specific treatment. So, now I ask myself: did I do a good job? I honestly doubt it, although sometimes tourists left the Museum happy and grateful.