My Experience In San Miguel De Allende

Being in San Miguel de Allende was an experience unlike any other I’ve ever had. I was able to experience parts of my own culture that I had never witnessed before and I came back to the United States knowing more about my cultural roots as well as feeling closer to my homeland. As an educator, after a week of teaching in Las Clavellinas I feel that I gained an immense amount of hands on knowledge that might have taken me years to acquire in a traditional classroom setting in the United States. I feel like this study abroad experience has equipped me to be better prepared as I begin my residency as well as for the real-world once I graduate and begin teaching.
When my family left Mexico, I was very young and therefore I was not able to
The city was breathtakingly beautiful and it was amazing being able to walk around and take in the beauty of it all. Going down to the silver mines of Guanajuato was an experience that was very impactful for me, our guide told us about the painstakingly slow method of carrying ore back in the day before technological advancements made mining a much easier process. He also told us about “El Pipila” a humble worker from the mine we were touring, who was an important figure in the Independence of Mexico. Without a doubt, my favorite part of visiting Guanajuato was when we saw the Alhóndiga de Granaditas, a building in Guanajuato that is full of history. It is the building that El Pipila walked to carrying a boulder on his back so Spanish troops inside the building were unable to shoot him and he set the door on fire so that Mexican insurgents were able to attack the troops inside. It is also the same building where the
The town and the school reminded me greatly of where I grew up and, I felt an immediate connection with all the students from the community. I learned a lot about what it means to be a teacher during those five days when we went to the school. Immediately, on Monday we saw that most of the stuff we had planned before the trip was not going to be the best for the students, so we had to make some modifications on the spot, I learned that great teacher has to be flexible and adapt as they go in order to meet the needs of the students in the classroom. This meant we would have to modify our lessons throughout the day because we were teaching Kinder-5th grade all on the same day, it was a very daunting task but I survived it and feel more confident regarding my abilities as an educator. I am excited to begin my residency soon and put into practice some of the things I learned this summer and refine my teaching style compared to when I did my internship this past spring. I definitely have a different mindset as a beginning teacher due to this experience and I feel that I have a newfound attitude about what it means to be a