2025 Max’s Blog

  Asking a favor, Differences across the world. Hey amigos, s’all goodman? I hope you’re doing well and have so many plans on the last weeks! I want to know about it :) Last week we discussed an interesting topic, asking favors, manners, things to consider, who, etc I thought there were not going to be a lot of differences but it turned out to be a surprise, so many people don’t like to ask favors to their family which is very surprising, maybe some people do not trust their family that much. Also some friends don’t like to ask favors to teachers or professionals which I found strange, I think asking help to professionals it’s always the safest and sometimes the best option, professionals are here to help us, I know it’s not good for the pride sometimes but it’s always helpful. Something funny or maybe shameful for me is that is very common to ask for money (of course I pay as quick as I can) because in Mexico it is a common thing, as I said last class, 2.5 dollars is the average p...

Hello my dear amigo(a), How are you? We are in the last weeks of the exchange which makes me very sad, even though I’m staying another semester it’s sad to say goodbye to this amazing group, the next group won’t feel the same :( Okay… let’s talk about the last class; we discussed about parenting and Hofstede’s Indulgence and restrained societies. First I’ll talk about parenting, we discussed about many topics, firstable was what time do little kids should go to sleep and actually most of us agreed on the time (9pm) even the japanese students agreed, I think it’s a good time to sleep, specially because in Mexico school is so early, it starts at 7am the first class so we have to sleep early in order to arrive on time with breakfast and shower. Then we talked about what age we stopped sleeping next to our parents, the answers here were very different and interesting, while many friends said like me (sleeping in the first months or years when we are babies) other friends stopped sleeping w...