Dual Immersion Ibero - Holy Cross [Iván]

 Chatting with Cam! Later on we just chat some days, for example on Saint Patrick’s Day he went out with his girlfriend and explain me a little bit about this celebration (it was more about hanging out and parties). Another day he asked me about the use of different languages on public spaces. For example, here in Mexico you can’t find many signs with more languages, like English, only on touristic areas or cities a little bit closer to United States, as far as I know. Another thing he asked was about the languages I use on my house. Since my family doesn’t speak English, we only use Spanish. Yeah, they understand the basic phrases or can understand simple sentences, but don’t know how to speak it or how to build a phrase or sentence.

 Our second meeting! The second time we met, we talked about some traditions of our cities. The most “important” or curious topic was my cultural heritage, like where my parents were from, my grandparents, my last names. Cam talked me again and with more detail about Boston’s football festival and the parade, which I will describe as interesting, since here in Mexico we have some particular way the fans “celebrate” their team. By the other hand, I wanted to know how his university is. Like the infrastructure of the school, their classes, how his professors teacher, etc. It wasn’t so surprising that each country has a complete and whole different education and system. Besides that, we started practicing in each other languages. In one parte we only talked English and half an hour later we started talking in Spanish.

Our first session was kind of difficult because of our schedules, it is funny that when he was free to meet us, I was busy with classes or with homework and vice versa, when I was free he was busy. We were about to look for a new partner but finally we had de opportunity to meet on Zoom. He looks like a nice guy, polite and cool. Then he started to talk super-fast, well, faster than the way I am used to listen to my classmates or professor. We talked about our countries, our “special” holidays, pets, and school. It was so nice and cool knowing more about United States culture. Also, we do almost the same thing when we want to speak a foreign language: we kind of translate what we want to say and, in that process, we change the modal or structure of the sentence in order to make it sound right or have some kind of sense. One thing that is pretty interesting is one special holiday or day. He told me about Boston and how this city has one particular party to celebrate the winner of a spor...