While in the school for our second-to-last day on Thursday, I was invited to the teachers’ lounge at the Mary O. Graham school (kindergarten to sixth grade). All of the teachers were very nice and energetic, and they shared some mate with me (like tea, but it has...
Hello all! We are absolutely loving Argentina and all of the wonderful people we have met! We have been VERY busy the last week and it has made it really hard to find time to blog about our experiences, but we want to share it all with you, so please stay tuned! We...
Sorry I am so late to make my first post while in Argentina, but this is the first day I could access Wi-Fi in the dorms we are staying in while in San Juan, Argentina. But first, I want to talk about my experience while in Buenos Aires, the first city we went to...
On the second day that we were in San Juan, we went to a ceremony where all of the aspects of the society of San Juan were in attendance: the governer of the state as well as other high ranking politicans (imagine Mark Dayton coming to an event that celebrates...
When I told people in Argentina that I knew nothing about Argentina or Sarmiento (the first president of Argentina) before I came, their faces fell. But when I told them what I have learned and how Sarmiento is simular, if not greater than our greatest progressive...
