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Veracruz Testing Center
Located in the city and port of Veracruz, it was
inaugurated in May 2006 with the purpose of
offering a space where the people of this area
could have the opportunity to take courses
within the program from BYU Independent Study,
through Internet as well as live classes that
complement the Web courses. Initially We are
teaching the ESL 41 and 43. In the location here
in Veracruz, we teach and extra ESL course
beside these ones, and we provide the students
material to practice listening and speaking. We
have created and recorded material for this
specific task.
Our immediate goal of establishing a 100
practical teaching method has been almost
completed and now with the great opportunity
to have BYU Students helping us here in
Veracruz. We we want to present to you and to
them a plan with goals that we want to
fulfill During the time the students will be
here. We want them to enjoy their internship.
We want them to get The most they can from us,
We want them to know that we can provide the
best chance for them, We want them to pick up
Veracruz as their first option for the internship.
PALACIO MUNICIPAL EN VERACRUZ
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Our work program for the BYU interns covers the
following points 1. - To provide them with a
good and healthy atmosphere where they can to
develop their abilities, skills and knowledge
as teachers of English as a second language. 2.-
To give this young people an opportunity to
visualize the teaching of English as a second
language as a business where they can establish
their own companies. We will show them how good
can be the Mexican market for this service, and
how can they even think about teaching ESL
courses to any speaker Spanish people in or out
the USA. We will show them all the
administrative, productive and operative process
that we follow here in the Veracruz Testing
Center, as well, Well show them how we create
and developed new material to accommodate our
students needs. 3. - To submerge them in all
the history, culture and customs of the zone,
through a program of guided visits to historical
places, ruins, museums and other cultural places,
not only in Veracruz city but any other place in
or around the zone of the Port, in order to
provide them with experiences of knowledge and
personal enrichment. 4. - To provide them with
an intensive, practical, and free course of
Spanish as a Second Language.
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Our ESL groups includes people from different
ages. In this moment we have classes for kids
from 8-12, teenagers, single adults, and adults
of all ages. The most of our students attend
to other schools to get and academic degree,
since elementary school to master and doctorate
degrees. But also We have housewives, employees
who work in different types of industries,
providing or developing different kinds of
services, As well we have students that work by
their own, or who owns their own companies. The
majority of the students are LDS, but we also
have students who are not, but they have adapted
themselves to the good healthy and warm
atmosphere that occurs within the Veracruz
Testing Center. Having all this different
people give us a wider perspective, enrich us as
persons and provide of more opportunities to
reach the goals that the BYU internship program
follows.
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In summary, and because of what we said before,
We want to extend an affectionate and warm
invitation to come to Veracruz and to
participate with us, of this interesting experienc
e. In Veracruz Testing Center, We are ready and
we have arranged all the stuff in order to make
this work together, We want our students and your
students to succeed

Our courses are distributed throughout all
the
year, reason why We can receive
your students in an uninterrupted way, without
mattering if it is spring, summer, autumn or
winter. You are always welcome. The lodging will
be provided for free with LDS families who live
as close as it is possible to the Testing Center
in Veracruz. Veracruz, have 4 stakes and a LDS
Temple, so, the students can attend them. There
is no greater ambitious than the man can aspire
than to learn always something new, something
that can elevates him and with this new knowledge
helps others to get the same desire. I am
convinced that in Veracruz Testing Center, we
share the same ideals that BYU has always
impelled. And finally I just say what President
Spencer W. Kimball said Do it! Following in a
brief way something about the history of Veracruz
and some images too, Enjoy them!

El Malecon
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Veracruz City The city of Veracruz is a major
port city on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican
state of Veracruz. It is Mexico's second largest
Gulf city and the most important port on
Mexico's east coast. It is located 105 km(65
mi.) along Federal Highway 140 from the state
capital Xalapa, and is the state's most populous
city, with a population of about 500,000 in 2000.
It is often referred to as Puerto de Veracruz to
distinguish it from the state. The people of
Veracruz are known as jarochos Climate The
climate that predominates in this zone is warm
subhumid with rains in summer. The annual average
temperature is of 25.3C. Gastronomy As it is
known, the typical food of Veracruz is the
seafood, which can be tasted in restaurants of
the City of Veracruz, or, on the old part of Boca
del Rio to only 15 minutes in car from downtown
by all boulevard. Delicious and traditional
dishes can be tasted, next to a group of jarochos
trovadores, that with his rhyme and jokes,
sometimes red, give more flavor to their foods.
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The city is known for its rich traditions of
music, including marimba bands, danzón and
comparsa. A special kind of music called son
jarocho, a mix of Mexican folk music and Cuban
son, was developed in southern Veracruz state, in
and around Veracruz, Veracruz. La Bamba is the
most famous example of son jarocho. An equally
rich dance tradition parallels Veracruz's unique
musical styles. In downtown Veracruz, a large
marble-tiled zócalo, called the Plaza de Armas or
Plaza Lerdo, is the heart of the city's lively
nightlife. It is lined with arcades that house
bars and cafes. On a nearly nightly basis large
groups of people sit outside in the plaza
enjoying food, drinks and cigars, while they
watch musicians and dancers that perform in the
square. Veracruz's 18th century cathedral and
17th century Palacio Municipal are also located
on the plaza. The yearly Carnaval festival in
Veracruz, a nine-day party in February or March,
is the most spectacular festival of its kind, and
it's also the oldest organized Carnaval in
Mexico. The city also celebrates a yearly
Afrocaribeño festival in July. These fesivities
illustrate the fact that the city is in many ways
more connected to Caribbean culture than that of
inland Mexico. The malecón harbor-front walk
along the docks draws many tourists, more from
within Mexico than foreigners. The city has
several beaches as well, like Villa del Mar and
Mocambo.
CULTURE
Jarochos dancers
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Aquarium in Veracruz
Downtown
Mojarra frita Fried Tilapia Fish
Carranzas Lighthouse
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Veracruz History
The sea port was founded by Hernán Cortés, who
first landed there in 1519 at the start of his
quest to conquer Mexico for Spain. It was named
La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz ("The Rich Town of
the True Cross" the name is also occasionally
given as La Rica Villa de la Vera Cruz). It was
the main port of New Spain, the port where
silver from the mines of Mexico was loaded onto
the Spanish treasure fleets for shipment to
Spain. The port was harassed by hostile powers
and by pirates pirate bands succeeded in
pillaging the city in 1653 and in 1712. In
response to such dangers the large fortress of
San Juan de Ulúa was built on an island in the
harbor, beginning in 1565 and substantially
expanded several times later. A natural harbor,
Veracruz has been fought over throughout its
history, and boasts the title "Four Times Heroic"
in reference to the expulsion of the Spanish in
1815, the 1838 occupation of the French Navy in
the Pastry War, and resistance to the United
States's occupations of 1847 and 1914 (see Siege
of Veracruz and U.S. occupation of Veracruz,
1914). During the Mexican-American War, US
forces led by Gen. Winfield Scott took the city
on March 29, 1847 after a siege. It was captured
by France in 1838 and again in 1861. In 1914 it
was occupied by the United States for seven
months because of the Tampico Affair, this time
under Major General Frederick Funston. The
railroad connecting Veracruz to Mexico City, 425
km (264 mi.) inland over mountain ranges, was
constructed during the administration of Benito
Juárez and inaugurated in 1873
San Juan de Ulua Castle
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Ancient Cultures in Veracruz

OLMEC The Olmec were an ancient
Pre-Columbian people living in the tropical
lowlands of south-central Mexico, roughly in
what are the modern-day states of Veracruz and
Tabasco on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Their
immediate cultural influence went much further
though, Olmec artwork being found as far afield
as El Salvador. The Olmec predominated in their
lands from about 1200 BC to about 400 BC and they
are, in fact, claimed by many to be the
progenitors and mother culture of every primary
element common to later Mesoamerican
civilizations. Olmec culture originated at its
base in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, where
distinctively Olmec features begin to emerge
around 1150 BC. The rise of civilization here was
probably assisted by the local ecology of
well-watered rich alluvial soil, encouraging
high maize production. This ecology may be
compared to that of other ancient centers of
civilization Mesopotamia and the Nile valley. It
is speculated that the dense population concentrat
ion at San Lorenzo encouraged the rise of an
elite class that eventually ensured Olmec
dominance and provided the social basis for the
production of the symbolic and sophisticated
luxury artifacts that define Olmec culture. Many
of these luxury artifacts, for example jade and
magnetite, must have come from distant locations
and suggests that early Olmec elites had access
to an extensive trading network in Mesoamerica.

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Azuzul Twin
Colosal Olmec Head
Olmec Mask
Baby Jaguar
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TOTONAC
The Totonac people resided in the eastern coastal
and mountainous regions of Mexico at the time of
the Spanish arrival in 1519. Today they reside in
the state of Veracruz. They built the
Pre-Columbian city of El Tajín, and further
maintained quarters in Teotihuacán (which city
they claim to have built). Until the mid-19th
century were the world's main producers of
vanilla. The region of Totonacapan was subject
to Aztec military incursions from the mid-15th
century until the Spanish arrival. Despite the
establishment of Aztec fortifications throughout
the region, rebellion was endemic. Major Totonac
centers were Papantla, with an estimated
population of 60,000 in 1519, Xalapa (around
120,000), and Cempoala (around 80,000). Cempoala
was the first major Indian center encountered by
Hernán Cortés in his march to the Aztec capital
of Tenochtitlán. The Totonacs of Cempoala joined
forces with Cortés and, along with the tlaxcalan
Indians, contributed significantly to the Spanish
conquest. Totonacapan became incorporated into
the Spanish regime with comparatively little
violence, but the region was ravaged by epidemic
diseases during the 16th century. Today,
approximately 90,000 Totonac speakers reside in
the region.
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El Tajin
Voladores de Papantla (flyer Men)
Smiling Face
Zempoala