This picture is from our first week in Quito. Mayana and I were extremely excited during Changing of the Guard, which happens every Monday in Quito. I felt like I was standing next to the British soldiers that never move. This officer was very stoic as well, but totally willing to let us take a […]
Venezia, Veneto, Italia
Two weeks ago we had our first “free weekend” of the semester. Most weekends are packed full of things that SIS plans for us like trips to museums, churches, chocolate factories, cities in Italy, and Carnevale events. The free weekend was a long weekend which was just that, free of anything planned specifically by SIS. […]
Ruinas y Piscinas
This Thursday team Yuma took our strongest game to the Instituto Superior de Arte (el ISA). The ISA is magnificent. It stands as the Juilliard of Cuba – the most elite expressive arts school in the country. It was commissioned on Havana’s largest golf course directly after the 1958 revolution, and legend has it that […]
Havana, weeks 1-2
Becky Friedman March 2, 2015 I have written around four drafts of my first blog post, each entirely different from the previous one. Some I rewrite because my feelings have changed so drastically from the last time I procrastinated going to the WiFi centers, and once because I ended up without a computer. But the […]
First Impressions of the Second week in La Habana
I want to preface this post by saying I have not used the internet thus far, have no idea what my fellow Cubanistas have been writing about, and although I would hope that each of us responds to a different aspect of life here in Cuba, apologies if I repeat information or anecdotes. Havana is […]