As opposed to US, Mexico is a very collective society. We like to include each other in everything. When we make friends, we like to spend as much time as possible with our friends. We hug and kiss each other and basically demonstrate our love...
Being in America has shown me all the pros of being a Latino/Spanish-speaking person. Spanish is a very special language, I believe that it's one of the nicest languages you can hear and one of the most complicated as well. Nevertheless, I am surprised by...
This past long weekend I took a trip to Yosemite with some of the IEEC members. We got together at the campus and drove all the way to Yosemite. The only stop we made was to eat in a fast-food restaurant. When we got there we...
I started drinking tea when the year first started. I did this because coffee was too much for me. It made me shaky and sometimes paranoid, I wanted to do everything in the least time possible and my energy went peaking from 0 to 100...
McWay Falls While being in California, Big Sur should be definitely on your bucket list. I went there back in September with my cousin. To go there, we drove down the highway 1, so even just the view from the car was astonishing. Along the way, we made a...
When studying abroad, you will probably encounter another grading system from the one in your home country. In the US people typically use letter grades (A+, A, A−; B+, B, B−; C+, C, C−; D+, D, D−; F). In the Netherlands we scale from 1...
Something I've noticed in the United States, is that the moment Halloween was over, people started preparing for Christmas. On November 1st I went to Target and already saw Christmas decorations, Christmas food, Christmas gifts and clothing. I thought this was really funny because the...
Sleeping in San Francisco has been hard for me. I also live in a city, but San Francisco is way busier and louder than muy city. Also, my roommates like staying up late and they usually make a lot of noise. I like sleeping early,...
It is funny how sometimes people who aren’t from your country celebrate your customs more than you do. As a Mexican girl, I know everything about Día de Los Muertos, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I follow every one of the rituals we are supposed...
At SFSU some of the courses are online. I had never encountered this before as my home university does not offer online courses. In this blog post I will share my experiences with online courses. The online course I am following this semester is Understanding Politics...