Patriotism always strengthens when you are away from your country; you realize how amazing your country and its people are, and you wish everybody knew it and left behind all stereotypes. So, I tell you, we do not ride donkeys and do not wear sombreros jaja.
No matter how close we are geographically to one another, there are a good deal of differences between customs of México and the U.S. Most of them are in little things—like how to greet a person. In México when you meet a woman, you kiss her on the cheek and when you meet a guy, you give him a handshake (or hug him if is he is a good friend). When I arrived and started meeting people I was trying to kiss on the cheek the girls I met, just to be polite, but I stopped doing it because most of them found it strange.
On Thursday and Friday, Mike, our supervisor in Voice of America, took another intern and me to the Online News Association convention that was held here in D.C. We went to a few presentations, some of them very interesting and some of them too technical for me jaja. I am studying marketing, and some of these meetings talked a lot about programming and things like that, but the subjects were very interesting. The new trends in this field (online news) are quit interesting because they try to get to people through social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, blogs and so on.
At The Washington Center they tell us a lot about how important networking is and how it works here in D.C. At the beginning I didn’t believe things were really like they told us (every time you meet someone new you talk about your job and you exchange personal/business cards) but this convention proved me wrong. Everyone was doing exactly that during the breaks of the conferences, it was sort of funny to see people giving and receiving cards.
Ahh, and other cool thing, in this convention there were a lot of free gifts and free food, something you can never say no to when you are living by yourself and still studying.
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