“Que no caigan en la bajada, ni en la subida del camino. Que no encuentren obstaculos, ni detras ni delante de ellos, ni cosa que los golpee. Concedeles buenos caminos, hermosos caminos planos.” - Popol-Vuh So occasionally I wonder what am I doing here? I have my moments where I just want to reject everything about my current situation. The next day I love everything about where I am or the place that I am visiting. It is funny because Cholula has become the place that I can consider home. I was away for 8 days of 10 last week (it was not spring break, just a normal week in Mexico) and I was looking forward to being back in my Mexican house. As I think back to the first two weeks and how I ... read more

So once upon a time I was studying Spanish in the country called Mexico when I decided to go home to the United States to see my family. I thought that I was not going to come back to Mexico, so I bought an apartment. The apartment was a townhouse with three floors and I decided to renovate it to fit my tastes. A couple days later a good friend of mine heard I was in town and came over to see my new apartment. However, this was interesting because I had not seen this person since 8th grade. He convinced me that I needed to return to Mexico to finish out my semester there. I said I would return, only under the conditions that he join me, so we hopped on a plane to Mexico. ... read more

Hey there! So, the biggest update is that I moved. As I told you all before my family was going through a hard time and I was sort of isolated and alone, but now I am living with a new family and a girl from Delaware. It is really great, because even though I am living with another Delaware student we speak mostly in Spanish in the house and she is at a higher level of Spanish so she is able to help me. I am also just a 5 minute walk to campus and a 5 minute walk across campus, which is great because I can run home and come back when I need something and it is down a short main road with a lot of people, so I feel much safer. I will ... read more

OK, so everything is still going really well here. Yesterday, after classes, lunch, and our meeting, I went over to my friend Tony's homestay to watch the soccer game between Mexico and the United States (U.S. won 2-0!). Tony's family was amazing, they were so nice and they kept telling me "es tu casa" (it's your house). It think his family actually thought I was funny, because we laughed for like 5 hours straight. We watched the game and talked with his parents about spring break and what we were thinking about doing. Some people want to go down to the Yucatan Peninsula to spend the weekend at the beach and some want to backpack around Chiapas and to me both sound like great ideas. I am trying to decide which I would rather do, they ... read more

So I am here; I made it to Mexico and actually I am starting to get accustomed to this new world that I am in. By the way, it is freezing at night and in my house and I am not very well prepared for that. Luckily my host family gave me a small heater (which is keeping me warm right now) and three blankets and a comforter. Anyways, we got in late on the 8th of February and met our families at the school. That night I really could not see the school, because it was dark, but my host mother and sister said that it is very beautiful. I have since been to the campus in the daylight and it really is incredible. It is a real Mexican college campus (whereas in Spain we ... read more