Living Abroad in Another Language

Unexpected hospitality in Acatzingo Brittany ’18 (left) spent a semester abroad living in Puebla, Mexico, in the fall semester of her Senior year.  She was studying at the Universidad de las Américas, or the UDLAP as she explains.  Brittany encountered a new level of hospitality while celebrating Mexican Independence Day.  Listen to Brittany’s story.

I was sitting around this table with people who had come to Acatzingo for the religious communities which are very alive and strong there. And they’d come from all different countries… Spain and Argentina and Nicaragua and Costa Rica, in Mexico. And I finally asked, ‘Where are we? What are we doing?’ and it was just someone in the neighborhood had just opened up their house for people to come to and just made food for everybody free of charge and just basically opened their doors to anybody who wanted to come in.