Tec De Monterrey

To start with some tacos at Villa Santiago,next to school. But the Barrocco or the Barrio are the bests in the old city center.Plaza San Agustín and seeing one of the mercaditos are a must as well for foreigners.

It was an average housing, yet in a rather poorer part of the city. But the universtiy had little say in it.

Women should never get a cab alone in any place of Mexico. Local public transportation is a disaster, but long distance bses are of high quality. Mexicans have a bitter sense of humour, which might offend some foreigners, but nonone should feel offended by their humour.

At arriving I knew only two words, and now back in my hometown I teach spanish, so therefore I feel I learned it pretty well. It was an amazing experience, but a hard job as well to learn how to communicate with people from an other culture. Not only the language I had to learn but social and cultural rules and behaviours as well. University helped to et the academic knowledge, while friends and host family to get the rest.

Shopping for clothes and other such items is much better in southern areas of Mexico. Technical items on the other hand are better and cheaper on the North.