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August 26th Carlos ended up taking me out on my birthday (Monday) to a beautiful bar that is on top of a very fancy hotel. It was all a surprise as I had no idea what he had planned, except that I was supposed to be dressed up. We had some cocktails and watched theContinue reading “26 August: A Mexican Birthday”

July 21st I went on a lovely hike in this natural park called Chipinque only 30 minutes away from the city by car. After hiking for about 2 hours on a very sort of mellow path we found ourselves on a T-split. One way, a mild road that was 3 kilometres, the other way aContinue reading “21 July: Chipinque Hike”

11:00AM: I start my days with a short bicycle ride to get to class. My house is on the far end of campus, and usually it would take me about 20 minutes to walk all the way across. A great hack is thus to use the Bicitec bikes that can be found all across campusContinue reading “A Day in the Life of a Tec Student”

I wanted to use my platform to discuss some of the beautiful literature from Latin America, that characterise the cultural differences but also harsh realities that people live with on a daily basis. The first piece of literature I would like to discuss is written by Eduardo Galeano, a famous author from Uruguay. “Open VeinsContinue reading “The Effects of Colonialism: The Untold Story”