toasthaste wrote on January 13, 2018 at 9:57 PM

omg! it's so good to see you! i like that the post on tumblr has made its way to some of the olde regulars

Are you having a good time in Mexico? what's like, your daily routine?

hoovy_woopeans OP wrote on January 13, 2018 at 10:18 PM

Well I have clases here every week day so I wake up and take the bus to my school, I have classes for culture, history and Spanish. After that I usually stay at the school to work on homework and return to my host family! My host family is great, we go to events in the city and movies and stuff but also it's just like a very normal house where there's not stuff going on every day.

toasthaste wrote on January 13, 2018 at 11:36 PM

Is this like a university student exchange program or what? like what's the structure that's enabled this cool thing to happen? and how good are u at spanish now

hoovy_woopeans OP wrote on January 14, 2018 at 12:38 AM

Uni program, yeah. It's a very well established program at my university. My professor flies to Maine from Yucatán every fall to teach Spanish classes. She doesn't speak a word of English and is a firm believer in immersion practices, both for language learning and learning her culture. She's been doing the program with my school for about 20 years now!

hoovy_woopeans OP wrote on January 13, 2018 at 10:20 PM

Also I sleep in a hammock every night which is very normal for life in Yucatán.

toasthaste wrote on January 13, 2018 at 11:26 PM

omg, my parents went to mexico years and years ago and brought back some of the sleepy hammocks, they're so nice!