Monday, June 9, 2008

Hola de Guanajuato, Mexico

Students attending Southwestern's joint Mexico program (with Texas Tech, and University of New Mexico, and hosted by Universidad De Guanajuato) began arriving May 28th and 29th. The program hosted an orientation and dinner on June 1st. Several professors, including professor Lutz of Southwestern, were in attendance.

Classes began Monday, June 2. Several courses are offered, including NAFTA and Comparative Constitutional Law. After Canada and China, Mexico is the USA's largest trading partner. Several Mexican and American guest lecturers have related their experiences on a variety of subjects from tariffs on imported goods to dispute resolution between countries.

Guanajuato is colonial city located in the heart of Mexico. It has some incredible examples of European colonial architecture as well great museums, hotels, restaurants, and night clubs. The City values and appreciates its tourist and student visitors and is very safe. At a 6,000 feet elevation, the City boasts terrific weather - warm, dry days and cool nights in the 60 degree range.

We have Law students from all over the USA - from Berkley to Rutgers and everywhere in between.

As always with abroad programs, one must balance enjoying the night life with study. So, I am off to the library now. More later.





2 comments:

Panthro Jenkins said...

Nice pics! If you are planning to balance, I want to see some photos from inside the library... Keep up the postings.

Eric Figueroa said...

For those of you in Guanajuato right now, a great place to eat cheap is a hole-in-the-wall panini place next to Guanajuato Grill near Teatro Juarez. I unfortunately did not find this place until my last week of being in Guanajuato, I was there in the Summer of 2006. I loved the short amount of time that I was there, enjoy it and take in as many sites as possible. If you want a good work out, try running up to Pipila's statue, but don't forget you camera, the view from up there is outstanding!