Goodbye San Antonio

Reportándome por última vez desde San Antonio, a dos días de volver a casa…

El trabajo final para la clase de gramática del curso intensivo de inglés fue escribir un ensayo acerca de nuestra experiencia en San Antonio. Vengo a dejar aquí lo que escribí, porque quiero compartirlo con los que me inspiraron a hacerlo; así que ahí va.

Because of all the good experiences I’ve had in my not so long life, I think of myself as a very lucky girl. Coming to San Antonio is now on my top three of incredible moments. During the last 20 days, I’ve gotten to discover some interesting places, made international friendships, and I learned how 12 persons that you barely knew can become something close to a family.

As part of the schedule of my scholarship, I had the opportunity to visit a couple of beautiful museums, such as the San Antonio Museum of Art and the McNay Museum of Art. Also, we received tours through the facilities of universities and corporations dedicated to developing or researching related to the areas of Chemistry that were interesting for the us. But, beyond these activities, my group and I organized other cruises; that’s how we had the chance of going on a massive shopping in San Marcos, walk around the 6^th Street in Austin, enjoy the Botanical Garden and Six Flags in San Antonio, and taste a bit of the night life with good company.

My last thought about my experience here in the U.S. would be that I could end dancing Latin music with an Angolan or a Saudi Arabian man. But I did! And that's going to be one of my most memorable nights in this country. The outstanding event was possible thanks to the dorms where we’ve stayed at the Incarnate Word University, because one of our neighbors is a guy from Angola who also studies English here in San Antonio, in order to begin a master in Architecture. His name is Jorge, and he became in one more of the "chemistry people", given that he is a really good person and, now, an amazing friend. In addition, Jorge introduced us to Sulaiman, one of his classmates who come from Saudi Arabia. He is another friendly person with the one I would like to keep in touch too.

But definitely, one of the things that I’ll remember the most about this trip is actually in 12 pieces: my “chemistry people”. Sharing the same floor and an uncountable number of hours with them makes me find some really valuable persons behind those unknown guys with the ones I took the plane 20 days ago. I think we’ll remain in contact when we go back to Mexico. After living together for this long, for sure we’ll love to share more time back in our country. Who knows? We might try to organize another adventure; anyway we’ve already got lost together on the streets.

I don’t have enough words to express gratitude for the huge knowledge that I’m taking back to Mexico. But for now, I can only enjoy the time I have left with this great group of people living in the same building, keep working on gathering memories that for sure will make us closer to each other, and saying good bye to this wonderful city which will stay in my heart forever.

Súper cursi… lo sé. Pero bueno, andaba inspirada. Jajaja!

Además de a los mencionados explícitamente, quiero agradecer a todas las otras personas que formaron parte de esta experiencia loca y a todos los que estuvieron al pendiente de mí desde allá.

Gracias =)

Lista veloz…

Mis profesoras, Hope y Kristy; a mis compañeros de clase, especialmente Emma Rosa y Luis Torreón; los otros amigos árabes, Karim y Abraham; los coordinadores de la UNAM, Paula, Alex y Jacob… y a todos los San Antonienses que me hablaron en español cuando quise practicar mi inglés con ellos.