When you grow up learning and being taught about something, you want to continue the experience. All the way through school you find out important information on Spanish heritage and culture. Everything you see or do today has somehow been impacted by a foreign lifestyle. There are many people in the United States spreading Hispanic ideas like food, language, and religion based off other countries, especially Mexico. To keep up with the rapid growing of this style, you learn more about it in school. Experiencing this for myself is why I want to visit a Spanish country. Many of my friends come from Hispanic cuisine and celebrate ideas us Americans are unaware of. We grow our knowledge in this subject without personally experiencing their culture and natural lifestyle. I have always wanted to have an idea of how they work things like government, jobs, economics, and even religion practices. If I could travel to one place …show more content…
Visiting a diverse country will expand my understanding of their ideal life, including their common food, jobs, education, and celebrations. Continuing to learn more about different cultures in school will be a reminder of my plan to visit Mexico in the future. I will be able to travel there when I am free of making my own decisions and have enough money to pay for the expenses. While the price may be high, it is my dream to travel to Mexico and see where many of my friends have grown their traditions off of. Trying new foods, learn practices Hispanics do in the United States, and obtain new items like tools, books, and textiles is why I want to travel to Mexico. Consequently, growing up learning and being around people from countries of different cultures and experiencing this kind of life is why I have always wanted to explore this country. I can not wait to share my adventures and spread my knowledge of what I discover while in
Waving goodbye from the backseat of the car, as we pull out of my parent’s driveway. Looking out the window at the oddly, white shaped clouds. Thinking, I had never been away from my parents and my younger sister for so long, even though it was only for two weeks. I was excited and scared all at once, but I wasn’t too thrilled about the whole 29-hour drive there. Hoping that the trip would go well and nothing bad will happen to us.
Sure, many of people mainly visit Spain to visit the big cites of Barcelona and Madrid, but I can personally assure you that there is so much more to explore. Running bulls, flamenco dancers, museums, Ibiza, Sagrada Familia, and Alhambra. The list goes on and on about the different places that an individual can experience whilst out there exploring the world. Let’s not forget the mouth-watering food too, one of which is by far the most popular dish that comes from Spain, and many fan-favorites, paella (a rice dish prepared with seafood). To further drive you to Spain, I’d like to address this. According to an article, “Why Take the Time to Visit the Alhambra in Spain?” it boldly states, “The ancient buildings, aqueducts, and other leftovers from hundreds of years ago offer amazing opportunities for tourists who take the time to visit them.” This is self-explanatory, if you would only take the time to really push and learn about the background of Spain, you will have the most amazing experience
a city where an eagle with a snake in its beak rested on a cactus. This
From an early age, I had the desire to give back to my community. This desire was likely instilled in me by my mother, who as a school teacher, went to great lengths to help her students achieve academically. To better do this, she created at Tupelo Middle School in Mississippi, the Mermaids and Argonauts Program, which allowed students to travel on extended school trips to locations where they were able to have hands-on experiences at zoos, science labs, colleges, museums, and more across the country. As her child, I was able to tag along on many of these trips, which fueled my desire to learn about and interact with my environment. It left me with the great hope that someday I would be able to have such experiences abroad, in order to better learn about the people and cultures with which I interact. For this reason, I hope to study abroad this summer in Pachuca, Mexico.
1. What personally connects you to this topic? – I took four years of Spanish in high school in which we learned about the culture in Mexico, and I always found it very interesting.
less a very knowledgeable trip. One part of Hispanic culture that I feel is at the top of importance is the
The culture I choose to explore is the Hispanic culture. I choose this culture because many of the people I work with and many of my friends identify with the Hispanic culture and I feel it would be interesting to know more about a culture that is so relevant to my life. A few of the big things in Hispanic culture that I found interesting are language, traditions and food. Hispanic refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture.
Traveling to Spanish speaking countries and understanding the culture will make any trip the ultimate experience!
I was born in Dallas, Texas but when I was 3 years old I was taken to my parents’ home country, Mexico. My mother took my younger sister and me to Mexico while my father stayed in the United States and worked to provide for us. I spend 6 years in Mexico and I went to school there. I had an amazing childhood in the place my parents were born and had the opportunity to grow up around my family and culture. I became a fond lover of the traditions and the peaceful life of what I consider my country. I have many amazing memories from living in Mexico. The way everything called for a celebration where everyone was invited. The dedication that every festival I attended showed. Simply all the traditions that even when I live miles away from Mexico have stuck with me, things I still celebrate with my family every year. I love to be able to call myself Mexican American and to be able to share my parents. My love for Mexican culture plays a role in my decision to want to go to Spain. I want to see where some of the customs I know originated from and see where my ancestors came from.
Mexico is bordered by the United States on the north, the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea on the east, and Guatemala and Belize on the south. It is characterized by an extraordinary diversity in topography and climate and is crossed by two major mountain chains, the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental. The high central plateau between these two mountain ranges historically funneled most of the human population toward the center of this region. Mexico features volcanic peaks, snow-capped mountains, tropical rain forests, and internationally famous beaches. Mexico City is an enormous metropolitan area and dominates the rest of the country's culture, economy, and politics. Nearly
As a Hispanic Studies minor being able to spend a whole year in a hispanic country is a complete dream come true. Being completely immersed in the culture I fell in love with six years ago will be able to open so many doors for me in my studies of hispanic societies. This will help increase my written and oral language abilities and my knowledge of the culture. However, I think the biggest lesson I will get out of studying abroad will be the power to be more open minded. Learning about a new culture teaches one to look at situations in a different way than they are used to. This will be useful in my dream profession as a child advocate lawyer. I will have to be able to assess the problem in as many different ways as possible to decide how the
Hispanic culture does and always has interested more than any other culture of the world. Traditions, architecture, beliefs, music, and various other components that make up culture have always seemed ideal and interesting. America has been and is great to me due to its vast freedoms and somewhat accepting melting-pot culture, but with so many aspects of culture surrounding me, I have often felt overwhelmed and lacking nationality. I am interested to see how differently people hold onto their cultural identity and how they feel about their country. I also would like to see how this feeling is different to the various countries and people that speak the Spanish language. On a family vacation, I went to Mexico and partially observed how people
Like an enormous living museum, Mexico City provides an extraordinary showplace for the thousands of years of human cultural achievement that Mexico has attained. It ranks as one of the world's great capitals and is a must for anyone craving to understand Mexico's complex past, its fast-paced present, and its ever challenging future. The size and grandeur of the city are staggering. It is not only the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Western Hemisphere, but, by some accounts, has also become the largest city in the world. Before we look at present day Mexico City, let us look into it deep and storied past.
What lays ahead of you is something you have never seen before. The sun rises over the deep, interconnected canyons all while giving you a clear view of the Barrancas del Cobre (copper canyon). The mountain walls give off coppery tones as you ride El Chepe. How is it that just now you decided to travel to Mexico? The whole trip has been an eye-opening experience. A vacation to Mexico was the perfect way to rewind your overwhelming life. Traveling actually started thousands of years ago and the Romans are credited for structuring modern tourism. However, nowadays traveling is usually down as a way to relax and not mostly for religious purposes. Traveling to Mexico is a fun activity that anyone can do. There are so many upsides to visiting a foreign country. Their stress levels decrease, happiness increases, and they become more creative. One gets to experience a different culture, scenery, and people when visiting this remarkable country.
I was handed a ticket by a nice person telling me that I was able to travel anywhere in the world. I was grateful that this kind person gave me a ticket to travel anywhere in the world. I started to think where I was planning to go. I started to come up with different places to go and I finally thought about a better place. Mexico City was the place that I thought that would be I good place to go. I thought that it could be a good place to compare the Mexico that I know and the Mexico City that I haven't been to. I would be able to see the people that work and what different types of work that they are able to do when going there. In Mexico City I can go to different restaurants that they have there and what kind of food that they have. I would like to go and see the place that they are known for, which is the ruins of the prehistoric Aztec. I think that it would be a good opportunity to learn the past and what happened to make that country known. I think that the ruins would be an interesting place to remember and tell my family about the ruins. People think that Mexico City is only a place for business and there's nothing interesting, but if people really look at different places they can see the place that are really unique as well as learn more about the background of Mexico City.