School Update
December 4, 2009
We finished Spanish class and had a little party. We also played a fun game. Basically someone goes through the alphabet and stops then you have to think of a name, city/place, florwer/fruit, animal, thing, and verb that starts with it. It was great. So that one is done and good. We only have Migration class for an hour on Monday to pick up assignments and get grades. We had a test that went pretty well, I finished my paper for Migration, and we had a roundtable to discuss our papers. Then Gender class is only on Tuesday. Lately we have been examining the 3rd wave and modern feminisms. We watched a really intense movie called Backyard which is about the femicides in Juarez across the border from El Paso. It was really intense and disturbing. In Cities we talked about disasters, water, and power. So the only class that wants us there both days so far is Cities. I only have finals for Gender and Cities left. I’m hoping to get rid of at least one of them this weekend.
We got to fill out an evaluation of the Casa and the professors. I would invite back the Spanish and Gender teachers, consider the Migration teacher, and just plain fire the Cities teachers. For the facility I would like to see better journal access, gym, and extracurricular activities happening at the Casa.
I am now in my last weekend of Mexico City. Unfortunately I feel like I won’t get out to do many cultural things due to finals. Oh well. I’m looking forward to coming back.
