Universidad de las Americas - Puebla

My favourite night spots have since closed. These include Cartujos bar and La Mulada. Activity wise there is so much going on. I really enjoyed my salsa classes and travelling all around Mexico. I would not miss Taxco, San Cristobal de las Casas or Palenque and many other places. Finding out about local concerts and festivals is also worthwhile. The Cervantino Festival should not be missed.

Being that it was my home university's program transported to UDLA, I had no language barrier because everythig was taught in my native tongue of English. My host family was not to have spoken anything but Spanish but my host brother always wanted to speak English to better himself. I made an extreme effort to make friends with people that didn't know Englsih so that I could learn Spanish.

The suprise for me is that you can do a lot more for a lot less. To save money you would do the obvious things, eat at home rather than out, buy beer instead of pina coladas and say no to buying a sixth silver ring or mexican rug!

I joined a hiking club that was organized by students. We traveled a lot and at the end of each trip there was always a "fiesta". Through the club I made a lot of friends, both national and international ones. Outside campus (directly behind the uni) there are plenty of night spots. You will never miss a good party if you know at least a few people beyond your own classes.

-Get a cleaning layd, its really cheap and worth it

Altough I had very good grades at school in Spanish, it was quite hard to fallow everyhing at the beginning of my study time in Mexico. But most of the people are quite patient and try to explain expression that I didn´t unterstand in other words. That happend as well in social but also in university life. Therefore I learned a lot of new vocabulary and my listening skills developed strongly. If I am talking now to a native speaker I often her compliments about my spoken Spanish and that I adopted the Mexican way of speaking:-)