 My name is Armando Alfredo Chitica Holguín and I'm from Mexico and I'm studying water management with the specialization in water conflict management. Well academically it's the first models were not so easy that as a lawyer I have a hard time with the mathematics hydrogeology and hydrology so and socially that helps us because our peers from other parts of the world help us to understand and remember the math and algebra and the basic calculations and then we help them to the with the other models that were more of analyzing the data and more about rewriting stuff and essays. Well the city is great I love Delft the city is beautiful the Institute by itself it's it's not a huge campus but has a perfect environment to study and make friends and learn a lot professionally and academically. Well the water management group we went to first Spain and then Portugal in Spain we were able to interview people from the government and from NGOs and well first Spain it's the main country in Europe with greenhouses so that's where they supply all the food in in Europe in the winter because they have a very good climate but because of all the production they have there's a lot of water scarcity in the groundwater so we came to to help and analyze the situation and to give recommendations to the government on how to act to help the over exploitation of the aquifers and then we did we did the same thing in Portugal because they shared a river basin so as a water conflict management it's very interesting to see the the situation they have between both countries how they manage the water resources between both countries. Well first of all we applied what we learned in class but also between our peers we get to know each other better and yeah to create a synergy in the group that is very positive for our relations professionally. My favorite class well I have two favorite classes one was water conflict management with the professor Saki Schubert and the other one was water law and environmental law with Fran Jasper and Jojita Gupta which is not a coincidence because with Saki Schubert she's the coordinator of my specialization and water law it's my mentor and my supervisor for the thesis. My research will be in Mexico first Mexico City and then in Chihuahua State as the case study and the topic is about the water property in Latin America we'll focus on the 18 countries in Latin America to see how the water property is in the law in the constitution of each of the countries that speaks Spanish that's where the focus will be on and then we'll focus on the case in Mexico to see how is the the relation between the existing laws and how is their applied in the in the ground. It's it's it's starting in IHDELF it's both very helpful for for the future and for the experiences you have before coming but also will give you the tools to to be a better student and to learn more about the water which is the main topic in the incident. The social evenings in IHDELF it's it's great because you get to meet people from all the continents here in a more relaxed manner you get to to taste different kind of dishes from the Netherlands. Well the student housing duo in in this case has in Papenstraat a really nearby apartment that's where we live it's six minutes from here when you are very in a hurry six minutes you can do walking normally you can do eight depends on how early you wake up to classes and well after classes in my free time I like to run I am in the running group here in IHDELF. Time passes really quickly here I cannot believe that with the juniors here one month ago I was still junior and now I cannot believe that I'm always I'm a senior now and all these last year went very fast so what I recommend to the future students is to study hard because time flies by. Well it's it's beautiful to see how in real life the politics in both countries can have conflicts and here in IHDELF you grow friendships between those countries so it's it's incredible to see people yeah I don't want to mention maybe the the countries but here yeah you cross that barrier of of the friendship that maybe governments can learn from.