Our final day in Cuba

We spent our final day in Cuba learning about the rich history of Cuban art at the Museo de Bellas Artes, answering some of our remaining questions at Museo de la Revolucion, exploring another face of Havana at a local boxing gym (where we were…

Final presentations

It’s our penultimate night together here in Cuba. Each workshop group gave a final presentation including gorgeous photography, readings of original written pieces, an impassioned speech about communism, folkloric dance and salsa, and live music. We are so proud of our students and look forward to a great last…

Guest post from Alice C.

This post features student writing. Queridos padres (Dear parents), My name is Alice C. and I wanted to recap a really fun day we had to give you all a student’s perspective of our time in Cuba. First, we went to a vegetable farm where…

Our last days in Havana

Everyone got together in a big group on Monday to visit Organipónica, a farm whose expertise in sustainable organic agriculture was cultivated the hard way. After the USSR collapsed in the late 1990s, Cuba was left without its most significant economic ally and source of…