A photo we took on a Disney store in our trip to New York City (nobody bought anything)

Hello!

We are the students of the Friends of Fulbright 2023 - Argentina Program. We are attending classes at IUPUI (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis) for 7 weeks. We are a group of 8 students of different fields such as Math, Physics, Economy, History, Chemical Engineering, Geology, Law, and International Relations.

The purpose of this webpage is to share a little bit of who we are, our ideas about leadership and our daily experiences in Indianapolis. For this purpose we invite you to look around this webpage and our individual reflections.

Friends of Fulbright 2023

The Friends of Fulbright Program

The main goal of the Friends of Fulbright - Argentina program is to promote short term exchange experiences in the US for undergraduate students. We live with local families, go to classes every day, and also attend to different kind of activities such as musicals, basketballs games, broadway shows, museums, movies, etc. in order to acomplish a complete cultural and academic immersion in our designated locations, in this case, IUPUI in Indianapolis.

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Ice skating in Indianapolis, as one of our weekend activities

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Some of our favorite things of Argentina ☀️

We are very passionate people to the point of being a bit intense towards everything - Emilia
Caipibaras making riots and claiming Nordelta - Lucía
People are super affectuous with each other, we hug a lot and we spend all day together - Julieta
Everything can be a mess but we always find a way to laugh about it -Jimena
The versatility of people at the moment of facing our problems - Guadalupe
All kinds of beautiful natural landscapes - Agustina
The food, specially "milanesa a caballo" - Julián
The sense of community - Baltazar

10 facts you didn't know about Argentina

Ice cream is sold by kilograms.
Public universities' tuition and fees cost $0.
In 2001, we had 5 presidents in one week.
The highest mountain in the America Continent is in Mendoza, Argentina.
The biggest dinosaur of the world was found in Patagonia, Argentina. It's name is Patagotitan Mayorum.
Argentina has more psychologists per capita than any other country in the world.
For argentinians, if you say we are meeting at 5 it means we are meeting at 5:30.
The most southern city in the world is Ushuaia, located in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
We raise our hand to tell the bus driver we want to get on the bus in that bus stop.
Life doesn't end at 7pm.

A "short" photo gallery of our trip

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