Not much to report today from Havana. We returned last week from our spring break trip to Baracoa and Santiago de Cuba. Classes have resumed and the schedule is back in full swing. I’ve contracted a head cold and have no medicine for, given that I had no way to expect I would get one […]

18 March 2015,   In Santiago today — I’m gorged off an entire roasted pig, which the group consumed at a local finca. We spent the day dancing to an array of music and soaking in the sun in the hot Santiago swelter. Last night I had the opportunity to observe a side of Cuba […]

Yesterday we returned from a weekend in Viñales — a farm town to the west of Havana and a tourist trap. I became ill yesterday afternoon and have been sick all of today. It is evening now and I am beginning to regain some strength. Due to my sickness, there isn’t much information to recount […]

Already more than a full week in, Cuba still feels unreal. While the first week of classes have begun to bring me out of my non-academically oriented funk, our lives in Cuba so far feel more dream like than ever. Furthermore, many of my original conceptions of what Cuba would be like have turned out […]

  19 Feb 2014 Getting Our Bearings – La primera día Our first day in La Habana, we were ecstatic to find out what the city had in store for us. The morning began with a generous breakfast comprised of eggs, pineapple, batidos and papaya (a false cognate in Spanish that should not be uttered). […]