My life in the States.

Hullo, well today I'll be talking about my time in the States.

So... like I've said before, I lived in the States 2 years ago and my time in there was just wonderfull, I truly enjoyed my stay in Overland Park, a city which is close to Kansas City, KS. I met lots of people and made new friends, had the best host family I could have and went to a unique school... well it really wasn't that unique but for me was great!

Those 10 months were awfully long but at the same time too short for me and at the end I had mixed up feelings... I wanted to come back and see my parents and family here in México, but I also wanted to stay and keep living in the States so I could go out with my American friends to art galleries, to the park or the malls, or just sit down in any random place to talk about the differences between our cultures.

At the beginning I had some troubles with the language, I had some knowledge of the English language but I just couldn't speak it.. at my schools in México they always taught me how to write it (and I know that I still have flaws) and also to read it but I was never able to speak it right. So on my first weeks I could barely communicate with my host family, school was pretty hard because I just understood a couple of things that were being explained, but as the months passed by I began learning lots of new words and my vocab expanded. Right after Christmas I began dreaming and thinking in English, it was quite shocking but fun, and then I started making new friends. At first, when I felt lonely I just wanted to come back but when that happened I just began thinking of how dissapointed my parents would be so I tried hard to not think or even remember a thing about home, it worked for me too well that I really didn't missed my family or friends until the 8th month, I really didn't cried until then (well I cried before but not that much).

I truly recommend to everyone to live and study in another country at least once in their life, people learn how to be independent, how to treat people from other countries and cultures, and gets to learn another language.

And if you are planning on going to the States with an exchange program I recommend Pacific Intercultural Exchange (P.I.E.) and the Kansas City area... the west and east coast are fun but very expensive, the center, south and north are just as great as the coasts sides. Oh and California and Arizona, even though I love to go there, are just too hot... I don't recommend it.

Also, if you need any help with exchange programs or just want to practice the language (English or Spanish) I'm always available, just contact me in here and I'll be happy to help!

That's all for today, take care and thanks!