January 12, 2007
Terace Thomas and Josh Mirrer
January 12, 2007
Our schedule for today wrote in italicized letters that we were all supposed to have met at 8:30AM for breakfast in the hotel and then be in the lobby by 9:00AM. But as can be expected some students do not eat breakfast and some students were just rolling out of bed at 8:50AM, but everyone was in the lobby by 9:02AM.
Today was a jam packed day as we had two lectures. Our first lecture was at 9:30am-11:30am at CEMLA, and our focus topic was on History of Italian immigration in Argentina: regional origins, periods of immigration, institutional organization, etc. Our second lecture by Ana Weinstein at 2:00PM-400PM at IES was on the topic: The history of Jewish immigration in Argentina. All semester long we had learned about the Jewish immigration into Argentina but life always teaches that we cannot learn everything at once. One of the most new and interesting fact that the lecture taught me was that through the Jewish immigrants that settled down in the outskirts of Buenos Aires their establishment of healthcare and education system for their community also benefited dwellers around them as it become open to them.
The lectures today were incredibly informative. Both were essentially history lessons, but it was incredible to discover how interconnected the world is. In world history courses we never learn how global events such as wars, economic collapse or persecution are completely interrelated. We were never taught to think that way. However, after WWII, Italians emigrated to Argentina to find a new start and move away from the destruction. The Jews of Eastern Europe escaped vicious anti-Semitic tendencies and violent pogroms by immigrating to this South American nation.
I feel our education is cut short in the United States and it continues to be blanketed by the media. We learn very little about how our world works, which can only become increasingly dangerous as globalization brings us ever closer; advancing our global community through the 21st Century. Despite our nation´s desire to improve international relations, we continue to ignore information that is out there.
For dinner some students and I ate some empanadas and pizza. We ordered the empanadas at Solo Empanadas, a food chain in Argentina. I had chicken empanadas and ham and cheese empanadas. It was great!
Along with our schedule for each day that is arranged by our professors we have an obligation to do journal entries each day in Argentina. We did not have a journal entry for today but all our journal entries that we have written thus far were due at 9PM tonight. And then the fun begins! Actually it started before because almost everyone had handed in their journals in by 7:30pm. Ah! What good students we are :)
Now to skip to the night life…
The Argentinian night life is incredible. Very much like going out in Barcelona, the festivities do not begin until 1AM. When I say 1AM, I mean the clubs open up at that time. People don’t actually start showing up until 2-3AM. The club we went to was called Asia. Once you pay the 40 peso cover charge ($15.00) you enter into a club that shares an environment not much different from the clubs found in any major city. Walking into almost complete darkness shaded by strobes of green, red and white light (a veritable dancing Italian flag), the atmosphere of Asia is filled with the pumping beat of American pop, rock and techno.
January 12, 2007
Our schedule for today wrote in italicized letters that we were all supposed to have met at 8:30AM for breakfast in the hotel and then be in the lobby by 9:00AM. But as can be expected some students do not eat breakfast and some students were just rolling out of bed at 8:50AM, but everyone was in the lobby by 9:02AM.
Today was a jam packed day as we had two lectures. Our first lecture was at 9:30am-11:30am at CEMLA, and our focus topic was on History of Italian immigration in Argentina: regional origins, periods of immigration, institutional organization, etc. Our second lecture by Ana Weinstein at 2:00PM-400PM at IES was on the topic: The history of Jewish immigration in Argentina. All semester long we had learned about the Jewish immigration into Argentina but life always teaches that we cannot learn everything at once. One of the most new and interesting fact that the lecture taught me was that through the Jewish immigrants that settled down in the outskirts of Buenos Aires their establishment of healthcare and education system for their community also benefited dwellers around them as it become open to them.
The lectures today were incredibly informative. Both were essentially history lessons, but it was incredible to discover how interconnected the world is. In world history courses we never learn how global events such as wars, economic collapse or persecution are completely interrelated. We were never taught to think that way. However, after WWII, Italians emigrated to Argentina to find a new start and move away from the destruction. The Jews of Eastern Europe escaped vicious anti-Semitic tendencies and violent pogroms by immigrating to this South American nation.
I feel our education is cut short in the United States and it continues to be blanketed by the media. We learn very little about how our world works, which can only become increasingly dangerous as globalization brings us ever closer; advancing our global community through the 21st Century. Despite our nation´s desire to improve international relations, we continue to ignore information that is out there.
For dinner some students and I ate some empanadas and pizza. We ordered the empanadas at Solo Empanadas, a food chain in Argentina. I had chicken empanadas and ham and cheese empanadas. It was great!
Along with our schedule for each day that is arranged by our professors we have an obligation to do journal entries each day in Argentina. We did not have a journal entry for today but all our journal entries that we have written thus far were due at 9PM tonight. And then the fun begins! Actually it started before because almost everyone had handed in their journals in by 7:30pm. Ah! What good students we are :)
Now to skip to the night life…
The Argentinian night life is incredible. Very much like going out in Barcelona, the festivities do not begin until 1AM. When I say 1AM, I mean the clubs open up at that time. People don’t actually start showing up until 2-3AM. The club we went to was called Asia. Once you pay the 40 peso cover charge ($15.00) you enter into a club that shares an environment not much different from the clubs found in any major city. Walking into almost complete darkness shaded by strobes of green, red and white light (a veritable dancing Italian flag), the atmosphere of Asia is filled with the pumping beat of American pop, rock and techno.
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