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"Mi familia Mexicana sera un parte de mi vida siempre. (My Mexican family will always be a part of my life). From the day that I arrived in Mexico, the Flores family made their home mine, and did whatever they could to help me make the adjustment to Mexican culture. I was overjoyed with their hospitality. The family also played an integral role in my learning to speak Spanish because they never spoke to me in English. Through my homestay experience I was able to make the connection between what I read in a textbook and real life; I didn't just read about the struggle, I was a part of it."
- Tanikka, Saint Augustine's College
Guadalajara, a historic city with roots in both the indigenous and Spanish colonial cultures, has given Mexico some of its greatest artists, artisans, and political and social leaders. Today, it is a contemporary cosmopolitan cultural center and thriving business city, noted for its beautiful public buildings, plazas, markets, arts and crafts, classical and folk music and dance, museums, and extensive murals by Orozco. The state of Jalisco, in central Mexico, has a temperate climate virtually year round, giving Guadalajara the name "city of eternal spring." It is in easy traveling distance to many of the important cultural destinations of Mexico, as well as its beautiful beaches.
You live in a homestay with a middle/upper-class Mexican family, who provides most of your meals and introduces you to Mexican family life. An integral part of the program, the homestay offers you the opportunity to make life-long friends, reinforce language skills, and experience the culture from "the inside." Host families are carefully selected and experienced with hosting students.
