You should go. There's a lot of hysteria in the press and Mexico is by no means dangerous. There is swine flu, which has been overblown and has crested, and there is a nasty internecine drug war - but the only people really getting killed are drug dealers and cops. They're pretty much leaving "civilians" be. If you're not in the game, you got nothing to worry about.
The American media WAY overblows it. It was incredible- I studied abroad in Oaxaca (which is much more unstable and poor than Cuernavaca!) and people asked me if I was dodging bullets on the way to class. Cuernavaca is a tourist mecca and very safe. Swine flu is really overblown too- not to make light of something that CAN be serious, but if you think about the amount of people who die of the flu every day anyway, it doesn't seem quite as bad.
Oh man I miss Cuernavaca.... I went there twice for a high school exchange, 1.5 weeks each time. It is such a beautiful city.
If I may ask, what kind of summer travel scholarship is this? I've been kind of looking at stuff in Cuernavaca lately, though at the moment my plan is to return to the US this summer then return to Spain for the '09-'10 academic year to teach English in Madrid. I'm currently in a pueblecito in Cordoba province, Spain. But I would love to return to Mexico someday... I fell in love with that country when I went.
Anyway, as for your question... I've been wondering the same. I'm sure you'll be fine though.
It's through my college's Spanish Honorary, 4 weeks with room/board, tuition paid with a stipend for transportation. Definitely not something I want to pass up. I spent a month last summer in Guanajuato, and I fell hard for it.
I spent about five months in Spain and I loved it. But I didn't make it to Cordoba, unfortunately - the time went much faster than I'd expected. Madrid is lovely, I'm jealous!
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So does the Spanish media. Ugh, all they could talk about for 2 weeks was the gripe porcina.
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If I may ask, what kind of summer travel scholarship is this? I've been kind of looking at stuff in Cuernavaca lately, though at the moment my plan is to return to the US this summer then return to Spain for the '09-'10 academic year to teach English in Madrid. I'm currently in a pueblecito in Cordoba province, Spain. But I would love to return to Mexico someday... I fell in love with that country when I went.
Anyway, as for your question... I've been wondering the same. I'm sure you'll be fine though.
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I spent about five months in Spain and I loved it. But I didn't make it to Cordoba, unfortunately - the time went much faster than I'd expected. Madrid is lovely, I'm jealous!
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