After taking the Stanford kids to the semi finals in the Copa Libertador (which includes clubs from all over latin america, it is NOT an Argentine league…it is a regional league), Estudiantes vs. some Uruguayan team (see just how truly deeply involved I am…), the Stanford kids continued their journeys back to the US and [...]
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DALE LEON
Posted in La Plata on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wrapping it up Buenos Aires style….in every sense
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, after two extremely successful weeks including amazing projects at their community organizations, a relaxing retreat with an indian molesting a horse, a rowdy and emotional Estudiantes semi-final, and topped off by an awkward forth of July reunion…..it was almost time for the Stanford students to take off. But first, they couldn’t POSSIBLY leave [...]
As one group goes, another comes and we take advantage of so many americans in one place: 4th of July
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the middle of the second accelerated week of this SLT group, ANOTHER group of interns arrived, from another program through the University of Chicago. The structure of this group is slightly different; they are spending 7 weeks in la plata, working in groups of four at three different organizations and the trip was [...]
Week two: the race toward finishing some grand expectations
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a great trip to San Antonio de Areco, the group entered their second week and last week of community service work in the comedores, and they had made a lot of work for themselves. The projects they had planned and designed were really grand and they were going to have to put in [...]
La Pulperia
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To top off a pretty incredible day of forgetting about our worries and our strife (isn’t that a line from a song? BARE NECESSITIES, MOTHER NATURES RECIPES!), we decided to really attempt to gaucho it up and head into the local culture and go to a pulperia or a saloon. I thought they [...]
San Antonio de Areco or Gauchoville: The Place of Relaxation, Reflection…and Disturbing Horse Relations
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Needless to say we all arrived to Friday exhausted. A long week of community service, in another language, with misbehaving kids (both those in the comedores and of the stanford kind…they had been going out at night a lot!), then a tiring day of physical labor and an extremely intense and emotional soccer game [...]
Los Pirulines y Los Pinchas
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday of their first week at their organizations we pulled them out of their daily routine, and had them do another all day group community service project. This time at a comedor called los Pirulines, a comedor we had actually done community service with before last year, when we painted their class room. [...]
Begining their community service projects
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday they went to their organizations and began needs assessments and began to think about what kinds of projects they wanted to develop with kids and the communities there.
The volunteers were split up into three groups, two groups going to one comedor, Tierra Nueva (one group in the morning, the other in the afternoon), [...]
Remains of the first weekend
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a long day of physical labor, and then many of the crew went out the following night to drink off some of that exhaustion, both physical from the days work and mental from being bombarded by a new culture and language, we decided to take it easy with them on Sunday. I also [...]
Excuses for being a dead beat blogger
Posted in La Plata, Working for FSD: Stanford SLT on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, I know I have been EXTREMELY neglectful, but I must say that as people have been nagging me and telling me that I have fallin’ behind, it actually makes me quite happy…because that means at least someone is reading it! At least someone loves you little blog, even if it is not our [...]
