2012 February 26

Articles

3 during this time

1. Our Spanish Erik Larson's Study Abroad Blog • Erik • February 26, 2012

   "You're here in Spain.   You have to learn our Spanish." One of my coworkers at the Centro Hispano-Dominicano, where I have my internship, has said this to me several times after Latin American words slipped out of my mouth. I learned Latin American Spanish for nine years before coming to Spain. ...

2. The UN vs. the People: A Modern Cold War Henry Gales's Study Abroad Blog • Henry Gales • February 26, 2012

   Investments in the 28 poorest communities Live better These are actions, not words We've stopped being the country's poorest. Say the government's propaganda campaign to hide the reality of their investments in the "development" of Chiapas. Since the January 1994 ceasefire between the Mexican state and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, (EZLN) the ...

3. When I Graduate… Henry Gales's Study Abroad Blog • Henry Gales • February 26, 2012

   Here in Oventik, I'm taking a tsotsil language class with someone who works in the local Zapatista secondary school. Someone asked him why he wanted to work in the school, and he told us that that was a difficult question to answer, because the western conceptions of wanting and liking ...