My Na’atik Experience - Dylan R-N

My weeklong stay with the Garcia Uicab Family was amazing. I had a tremendous amount of fun and this is a giant step out of my comfort zone to visit a foreign country by myself as a 16-year-old. The food the family served was out of this world and I was looking forward to every meal because I knew it was gonna taste good. Also, the staff at Na’atik were amazingly welcoming, and they helped me tremendously to get where I needed to be. The activities available were an insane amount of fun. The cenote trip is definitely worth it and I got some amazing videos and pictures out of it. I also did the bike adventure with Bruno. Right now, most of the people here are on break so it was only me and Bruno. The bike trip super interesting. We rode on a historic and iconic road that goes from Felipe Carillo to the ocean and I learned all about its history, the seasons here and we stopped at a lagoon, I got to try sapotes and mangoes. And even though I’m not totally fluent in Spanish, I was still able to have a conversation with him basically the entire time and I could understand everything he was saying, and I even got to teach him about some of the American culture on the East Coast. In general, I had an amazing time on this trip and honestly, I would do it again if I had the chance to, and I would bring my friends because something like this would be tons of fun with people you know and before I came here, I was a little nervous, but after being here for a week, I feel like I’m a part of the community and this is more than worth it so I definitely recommend.