Sun, sand and sea

Maybe Cancún is not the biggest city, most of the tourist come and host at hotels located at the hotel zone, where you can visit Nichupte lagoon, discotheques and all the fancy places. But, visitors sometimes forget to go to the other side of Cancún, for example, to Puerto Juarez, which is the “bridge” for going to Isla Mujeres.

There are different ways to cross the sea, for example, by ferry or little ships. The last ones is the unpopular way to get there, but what people don't know is that is cheaper than the others if you analyze it carefully.

For taking the boats you have to go to Punta Sam, there, you will find a harbor where you can get information from any ligtherman in the place. Once you have decided which tour you will take, the only thing you have to do is relax and enjoy the trip.

Most of the tours include scuba diving around the lighthouse, where you will be able to see the wonderful multicolored fishes. Tours also include lunch that the lightermen prepare in a small restaurant by the sea, the famous tikin-xik which is barracuda fish flavored with axiote and spices. You cannot leave Isla Mujeres without tasting it, give it a chance, you will not regret it!

By taking this tour you also will be able to stay for a while on the island, where you can rest on the beach or shop some souvenirs. The best of all is that you can have all of this by paying only two hundred and twenty two pesos.

After a long and fun day, you will be back in Cancún by the evening. We assure you it will be a great and unforgettable experience, people there is very kind and will make you feel like home.

For more information, please visit the youtube channel: Cool-turistas.

Despicable us!

La Salle Cancún Radio Visit La Salle Playa

In recent days the University radio "Radio La Salle Cancun" made a visit to La Salle Playa del Carmen to share some university environment and those interested in the career of communication may have a closer contact with something related to career to the ones that want to join and besides that students of La Salle Playa del Carmen made a flashmob, that  is action organized in which a big  group of people who assemble suddenly  in a public place, perform something  unusual and then dispersed rapidly, it was fun to see how students and teachers danced to the sound of the mix that students armed for the flashmob but especially watch the participation of almost all who were there as it was done at the recess time.

Likewise, we spoke with a student who was selected to go to the football team "Chelsea" because the team viewers came to Mexico to carried young talents to the English team and this kid who is still studying high school is already a player of the Chelsea, we hope hearing from him in the news

Here we let you an album of what happened in La Salle Playa del Carmen and hope you like and comment it.

Album

Special Cancun- japanese 

urban tribes 

The otakus

In Cancun  there are several urban tribes but one of the most numerous and one that doesn’t respect age, social condition or religion is the otaku tribe.

The otakus are teenagers in the majority in a rage of 11 and 18 years (but also is very common to see otakus in the university and otakus that have teenager children) that adores the  anime and manga ( are cartoons and comics from japan) but they also worships japan and anything that this country could offers. The otaku dream about living in Japan and because that they learn to speak japanese, they also eat japanese food like sushi and ramen claming to  be on training for the day they could travel to japan.  

In Cancun the otakus wait all the year for a convention a place where a variety of specialized stores from all the country get together and they spend all their money in trading cards, anime shirts, japanese candies, anime dvd’s that in the majority result to be copys and all kind of anime merchandise. Otakus also enjoy to costume their self this is called “cosplay”. Cosplayers contest is one of the most waited events of the convention day, other events are karaoke and the conferences with the voice actors.

When a otaku is not wearing a costume in a convention they are also very easy to detect in a crowd, we could say there is an otaku in every mall, and every class room in this city. They all look very similar; they like to use cat faux ears, cat bells, dog chains, black T-shirts with anime images, jeans in their majority black, also they wear glasses and sneakers, they carry a backpack with all kind of stuff like mangas, cards, dvd’s, and stuff to draw because in a great part they wish to became a mangaka.  

Every one it´s free to be as  we want to and more because we are young  to express ourselfs, and  it´s very  important  to respect every way  of life and  behaviors ,  we have to think that  they are part  of our culture and they are the result of consumism and  the multiculturalism  and it´s a reality  here , and in many parts of the nation and also all over the world the  urban tribes are part of  us and make us reach in culture . 

By  : Danniela Manzanilla ,  Azael Náhuat  and   Andrea  Echegoyen 

Christmas in Cancun

Christmas in Cancun

We know we are approaching a very important dates for people that Christmas is, as everyone knows are celebrating Christmas dinner with your family, opening gifts and living more closely with your family yet here in Cancun and as I found certain situations I realized that celebrating Christmas is different here than in Mexico City or other places of the republic from what I've seen and as for my experience Christmas here celebrate it with close friends or go to a hotel to spend this date so important and if given the chance came to visit your family or they come to spend the holidays here.

If you look at other difference to spend Christmas here in Cancún than elsewhere is the weather in Cancun heat nor forgives not be Christmas then we are in the rare situation that even though cold season is hot of course not the same as in summer but if it does and does not feel like Christmas.

This Christmas my family I hope you feel a little cold to feel more beautiful this time so full of harmony and happiness.



By: Fernanda Tello, Alejandra López, Jorge Martínez 

One more step and we are done.

One more step and we are done.

The last days of the semester are always the worst.

During the semester everything is very relaxed, all tasks, projects, student atmosphere, everything.

In the last two weeks you can breath the stress through the halls of the university, as although some tests or projects are simple and without any complicity, there are others who drive us crazy.

All the friends hate and scream each other, but at the end, they are  the same old friends.

It is a good experience but when you are living it don't see it that way that's why we recommend you not leave everything to the end because stress is not good for anyone, take your time in the semester, there are days where nothing is done. You will see how the end will not feel the pressure and the stress, or maybe you have, but more relaxed.

And when you apply this let us know how you go, because we, Communication students we will continue leaving all for the last minutes. 

Without any stress, there is no end of semester.

There is only one week left, make the most of it. Enjoy your vacactions, of the holidays . Have a Merry  Christmas and Happy New Year. 

Cupcake Team ( Dámaris, Adriana, Mayte)

One Last Try!

Hello, everyone! Karla here.

How are you? Hope good.

Well, is holiday season and classes are almost over, so now the only thing left its presenting the final exams.

This will be the last week of school, first week of December, it's when all came to an end, one more semester is over, holiday will start, but will be the final exams week.

And it's when everyone star to realized all the projects we've done.

All the laughter and angers, the bad things and good ones too, we start to locking back to the first day of the semester, and  recount what was the best of the semester. Or maybe we just start thinking how far we have come, from the first day of school till now.

But what's more important is that we pass all this things together  as a group. Just because we're getting closer and closer to the end of our career. 5 semesters have pass now, and that only means that we got 3 semesters left to finish it.

Wow, that's really impressive, this semester went very fast.

 

So, the next week will be the last one of the semester, and then its HOLIDAY SEASON! CHRISTMAS IS COMMING TO TOWN!

So, let's go people!, let's give a last try a final push and do the best, in that way we can enjoy our vacation with no worries, just enjoying our family and friends, that in this time of the year is the only thing that matters.

Merry Christmas everyone and happy holidays!

By: Karla Simá, Karen López, Sara Araujo, Mariela Vallejo

Dance of the fire.

The Dance of the fire carries out by means of different technologies and forms a part of the historical culture of some zones of the world.

The dancers with fire are a group of young women who create his own dances, and wardrobes mixing them with the fire and the music. This activity started being realized by major frequency in Cancún eleven years ago.

The materials that they use to create his instruments of fire normally are of glass fiber. The device mas used to do fire is the Poi that they are a species of chains and of I begin they are the most common, later the hulahoop used by the girls equal is very common that they dance with the ranges of fire gives them a rather classic style. The fire stick and the so called fingers barites are more acquaintances and used.

With the passage of time they have improved the dance and have mixed it with the juggling, doing an incredible show, before alone they were devoting themselves to do them in the street and now events are contracted to realize and up to to be fixed in the show of certain important hotels in the hotel zone.

It is very a danger to fulfil this actividady for this razòn responsibility has to be had great to dance with the fire professionally.

Cupacake team 

(Adriana Lara, Mayte Mendoza & Damaris Martínez)

Happy thanksgiving!

It was November 22th, and here in Cancun we were eating any other thing but a nice turkey, and that’s ok, thanksgiving is not a mexican tradition, even some people never have never heard about it.

I got a friend who was born in Miami she lives in Playa del Carmen like me,  and every year, she invites me to celebrate thanksgiving, at the beginning was something new and weird, but now I even count the weeks until that day.

When you simply don’t know anything about thanksgiving your day pass as any other day, like most mexicans do.

Here in Cancun, there’s a little group of people who prefer to celebrate thanksgiving having dinner, they reunite and organize to buy the turkey, the wine and a lot of delicious snacks which go along with the tradition. That's pretty nice, well, comparing to the endless thanksgiving parades in America, our dinner definitely just stay in "nice"(laughs)

So, if you don't know what thanksgiving day is, come on!, google it! and tell us what do you think about it, the crazy and epic moment when you realize we have different traditions which define our culture, and as we celebrate thanksgiving, there's a lot of people in Cancun, Monterrey, Dubai, Morocco who keep the routine going like a normal day, another one.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Despicable Us

One day in the life of… Cancun

Before start talking of cancun, for us is a obligation let it know that need to be ready to know it. The experience will be unforgettable, unmatched  and very time you lisent this Word (Cancún), they going to come memoris that they goin to make you come back over and over again.

If you already know what we talking about, then you wouldn't let me lie.

Cancun started the day waking up with the harmonic sun of his Caribbean’s wave, the biggest star in the universo cameo ut of the darkness and beggins to iluminte the warm beaches, and people start to get into the intimity of the nature.

 While this fervent act passes, Cancun does not waste a single minute to start grooming and receive her passionate lover (the moon). That lover who has returned to Cancun one so romantic, not forgetting that, with advancing age, our city shows her wild side.

Finally, while you rest the big day you've had, Cancun has not blinked for one second because he has to be ready to begin your natural cycle waiting for those like you, are willing to experience.

By: Fernanda Tello, Jorge Martínez, Alejandra López. 

"Fonomímica"

The "fonomímica" is an event in which is represented a song from any artist and is made with a choreography alluding to the song, while performing choreography lips moves as if the person on stage is singing.

This end of course, the university plans to make one and is inviting all students, employees and teachers to join the event that will take place on November 30 at the facilities of the university with the aim of bring the LaSallista family together, this  is planned to be a major event like the previous ones like the longest tamale to set a guinnes record, the human star and the lipdub for the "lipdub college contest" that succeeded.

You just need to go to admissions with a sheet including the name of the members of your team and the name of the song you want to participate and start practicing the choreography and look for the necessary outfit for  your presentation

We hope that many teams go, in order to show the participations videos so you can enjoy these.

Here we have Moymoy Palaboy, a couple of guys from Philippines that make videos for YouTube doing "fonomímica" a song from "Queen" hope you like it and wait anxiously for the Fonomímica university ones.

As you can see at university we do funny things.

The Ghost Writter

SPECIAL 10th SEMINAR ANIVERSARY 

UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCES

De la Salle Cancun University is meant to make a tradition for the tenth aniversary  of communication seminar. The seminar is a macro event that we all expect looking forward to, is something that is very important for us as students , because we learn a lot , is an important job that our peers of seventh semester organized about six months before, The theme for this year was "stereotypes " and the seminar was named  " Estereotípico".

The event took place on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 of November at the university auditorium at 9 am on the dot , believe me all semesters of our career and also  of some other careers as Design and Psicology were there . Everybody attended  to be part of this special event, specifically us, my group, with many expectations.

By the way , for all of you to know that day is not only  for speakers, but also for the session of our videos projection as well as  the classic photographic exposition of our peers of first semester supporting the  "stereotypes" theme.

The interesting part of it  is that the audience could appreciate the work of our  peers of first semester ,  while they waited for the next conferences . In the coffee brake  on the lobby at the auditorium there were delicious cookies, and coffee, and soft drinks for everyone to enjoy.

The main speakers  were Rafael Pérez, director of the magazine "A Diseño" with his presentation "A light world". There were divided  opinions  , some of them  like the theme that he exposed, but others  disliked it , some labeled him  as arrogant. Something that anyone could argue is that he is an expert on the subject. Another important  speaker that  we had was the prestigious and experienced film director and actor Gabriel Retes,  his major films was " El Bulto " that is recognized internationally. 

All of this is just part of the tenth communication seminar. It is a fact that it would  be  part of  the  history of the university and also of our career.

As there is all about, the seminar is that , to discuss current issues of importance for the communication community.