My Mexico homestay experience was
something I cannot describe in words. “Amazing” does not say enough about how
wonderful it was, “Eye-opening” does not describe how privileged I felt, and
“Thank You” is not the words to say how grateful I feel for my wonderful host
family. First, let me describe to you my situation on my trip. I was with a
Host family that consisted of a mother, father, 12 year old son and a 15 year old
daughter. The daughter, Mariana, was so fun and really supportive with helping
me feel comfortable and understand the language. The son, Diego, was hilarious
and loved to ask me a million questions about my life back in the US. The
parents were really nice and loved to ask me questions about my family and they
always made sure I felt safe and took great care of me if my stomach
hurt.
During my trip, my
host family took me to a lot of different cities to see so many different
things. This was not something I was expecting at all. I thought they would
just go on with their lives and I would be apart of that, but that definitely
was not the case. I could tell from the minute I met them in person that they
were just as excited to have me in their family as I was to be in their family.
It seemed like they had planned for my stay there for a long time. The whole
trip we were always going somewhere to see something, and it was cool because
everything that we did seemed to be very unique to that area we were in. Because
of this uniqueness, I was able to easily spot the similarities between places
but enjoy the special part of each location. For instance, I noticed that every
town has its name in big block letters somewhere very close to the
center.
On my trip, my host
family was shocked to learn that I love spicy food. Which I thought was
hilarious and I don’t think they really believed me at first until we went to
some restaurants with, what they thought had, spicy cuisine. I tried everything
my host family put in front of me and about 98% of what I had was something I
would definitely want again. Most of the food that I didn’t really care too
much for was the Mexican candies. My host brother made sure I tried every Mexican
candy he could find and he thought it was hilarious when I didn’t live
something. One thing I discovered was that my host family (along with their
extended family) loved to have me try different food and many different ways
too. Let's just stay that I ate a lot on my trip and I think because I ate so
much is why my stomach didn’t feel so good but I don’t think there was a
particular food that upset my stomach. I got to try food that I never thought
existed or that I would ever get to try in my life and that was definitely
worth the stomach ache.
I absolutely loved
the tour of Mexico City at the end too. I learned so much about Mexico in
general and it was so cool to stand in the places where history was made. I
also liked talking to the other students on this trip about their really cool
experiences with their host families.
Like I said in the
beginning, there are no words to describe how wonderful this experience was and
I would never hesitate to recommend this to someone else who is interested. I
wouldn’t trade this experience for anything.
-Victoria Weber
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