On June 26, I arrived in Mexico City for the beginning of my 15 day visit. I was picked up at the airport by Lucy Reyes and Ileana (Head of School) from Escuela Internacional and taken to the hostel I was to stay at for the night.
Unfortunately for me, my baggage did not arrive with me and so I was without my belongings for a day. I was reunited with my baggage at 6:30 PM last night and felt so relieved that everything came in one piece.
The past day or so, I have walked around the Plaza de la Republica (near where I am staying) and visited the monument dedicated to the Mexican Revolution as well as one of the many cathedrals that Mexico City has. I spent a few days yesterday in the midst of a rally put on by one of the presidential candidates on his last day of public campaigning. The presidential election is on July 2 and the people in Mexico are very vocal and passionate about who they support. It is an exciting time here in the city.
Today, I am scheduled to meet some of the students and faculty who will work with me and my 8th grade classes at Moses Brown on Challenge 20/20 in the fall of 2006. I have brought a copy of J.F. Rischards book
High Noon 20 Global Problems / 20 Years to Solve Them as well as copies of the
Cupola and the 2005
NAIS Challenge 20/20 brochure. I will spend time discussing the project, showing them the presentation from last year and setting them up with this blog that I created for both of our schools to use.
