It still has not hit me that we are going to Argentina on Saturday. I am sure it will not hit me until I am standing in the airport in Buenos Aires staring out the window into a new country. I am very excited but still a little nervous. The only thing I am nervous...
. . . I will be embarking on my first trip outside of the U.S. There really is not just one word I can use to describe my thoughts or feelings. Everything is sort of jumbled together. Excitement, nervousness, anxiousness. I’m restless. It’s only Monday evening and it...
Four days left. Cuatro días. It feels so surreal. I can hardly believe it. I have always thought of this trip as being in the distant future. “Not until summer,” I would tell myself. “I still have time.” But summer is here! The past few nights have been almost...
I have gotten asked the question a few times from friends and family, “Wow, Argentina! What you are going to do there?” The answer is the most exciting part of the trip. We will be teaching in the Mary Graham school in San Juan for four days. The first day is an...
This trip to Argentina actually began almost 150 years ago, when some of the first graduates from Winona Normal School traveled to Argentina at the request of President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. They went to help renovate the nation’s school system and served as...
