Developing intercultural competence within the context of the foreign language learning experience can help students acquire the ability to understand and adapt to difference as well as the ability to be flexible and open when facing new experiences. Although commonly assumed to be dependent on an international experience or encounters with foreigners, these competences can be developed in the absence of either. It is important, however, to pay particular attention to the interplay between theory and practice in order to ensure greater possibilities of experiential learning. By building awareness and carrying out practical tasks at the same time, students are able to grasp the need for intercultural competence in today's world and classroom as well, and can also have numerous opportunities to learn from intercultural encounters. This presentation shares one experience, the "Subculture Adaptation Project" carried out in a university--level Intercultural Communication course in Bogota, Colombia, where students were able to combine theory with experiential learning as they studied their own adaptation process to a local subculture. The presentation also outlines several specific ways in which intercultural competence can be developed within the foreign language classroom, but without the need for contact with foreigners or travel to an English--speaking country. The following are appended: (1) Permission Form; and (2) Tasks for Intercultural Communication Projects.