Yesterday we began another month of Spanish classes, this time much less frequent just to keep us in practice. Because there are only three of us, they could not provide us with our own teacher as expected so we began class with the Alabama kids who live in our hotel (by chance- what a small island huh?) and guess what!? It was too easy. Kind of nice to feel like I’ve improved even just a little. Hopefully we’ll figure out some better option. After class we went to a 24 hour sandwich stop, a busy pizza place, and a stand by the bus stop- none of which were open for lunch. Oh well. That morning we started the day with Third World Underdevelopment and Politics class near the hometel where we got into a heated argument about a recent news story about a political prisoner dying of a hunger strike in a Cuban prison. It was exhausting.
Then today we got up early and hoped on a bus to Camagüey for a program excursion. Parts of my credit hours include various visits and these trips to other parts of the island. I had a really great time on the last excursion to Santa Clara, and I promise to take some pictures while here as I’ve left the camera in its bag recently- my apologies.
I don’t know much about Camagüey or Las Tunas, but it is an inland area in the middle of the island. We spent pretty much the entire day on a long (seven hour) and extremely bouncy ride (no shocks on the bus and bad roads) through the country. Totally worth it; I really enjoy the country landscape, the horse carts and the giant oxen trudging through the red dirt.
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