Dual Immersion Ibero - Holy Cross [Iván]

 Program reflection This immersion wasn’t similar to nothing I have experienced, I really enjoyed chatting with Cam. I learned a lot of things I didn’t know about the United States. Yes, it was kind of difficult to understand him because he speaks very fluently and he’s a native speaker. The only thing I would change is how we choose our partner. We couldn’t choose it, the problem isn’t that, the inconvenient was that our schedules were so different. When I was free he wasn’t, and vice versa. That is the only thing I would change if I had the opportunity.

 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.