Day three and we finally started that whole "school" thing! We got to see the location we will be having classes at. It's called "Center de estudiando martiano" or the Center for Martiano Studies. To give you the five second intro to Jose Marti: he is a Cuban icon because of his intellectual work. He did a lot of writing on revolution, freedom and anti-colonialism. He spent a lot of time in the US organizing the Cuban independence (from Spain) movement. He was exiled from a whole list of countries for stirring up too much trouble, but he is still a very well respected thought-leader. Hence an entire institution devoted to studying his work.
The Center is BEAUTIFUL. Old restored colonial house with much of the original furnishings. It also has AC. Total score. We got to wander around a bit outside of the Center during some down-time this afternoon, and it is such a tease. I can't wait to have a whole block of time where all I'm expected to do is think about photography. I am especially interested in the older people out in the parks and on their balconies. I'm not sure what my documentary focus will be yet though...
The food is better than I expected, but I am always hungry. I'm not sure if it's because I'm walking around more, or because I just know that I can't have food whenever I want. I miss my bag of reese's!
We have our first official lecture tomorrow and then our first photo tour in the afternoon. Topics for tomorrow photo tour: old cars... and a bunch of other things that I kind of forget now. I'll fill you all in tomorrow.
For now, internet is expensive so I'm signing off. Hopefully we will find an internet situation that allows me to post a picture or two without taking five years to upload. Fingers crossed!
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