7:00PM Meet at JFK

10:10PM Depart JFK (well, that was the plan . . .)

9:30AM: Depart JFK (finally . . .)

8:50PM: Arrive Buenos Aires

Midnight: First meal in BA, in the café on the corner of Carlos Pelligrini and Santa Fe

Journal #1: Someone said “travel is about the journey to not the arrival at.” Write in response to this now you’ve had time to reflect a bit.

Breakfast provided at the hotel

9:00 am – 12 noon: Visit AMIA (Tour and introduction of AMIA: resources and services available) (Must bring original passport, not photocopies. Pack it safely, not in your pockets or purses.) AMIA: http://www.amia.org.ar/

Lunch on your own

Unpack and rest in the afternoon.

4:00 pm: Meet at the lobby of the hotel to walk to IES for our orientation.

4:30 am – 6:00 pm: IES orientation (Cultural information about Buenos Aires, safety issues, living in Buenos Aires, getting to know the “porteños,” etc)

(Eve): Continue to explore neighborhood around the hotel. Dinner on your own

Journal #2: Impressions of AMIA, Once, or some other place we went today. Optional: focus on feeling out of place—or feeling at home

Breakfast provided at the hotel

9:00 am – 12:30 pm: (IES) City tour of Buenos Aires (Focus on Belgrano, Once, and San Telmo and end in La Boca, with stops in Plaza de Mayo and San Telmo to visit a tenement house)

Lunch at La Boca

Visit to Quinquela Martín gallery. Discussion of his art, depictions of La Boca, and other images of life in Argentina

Meeting with Celia Chevalier, view her art, discuss life in La Boca and visit a La Boca-style tenement house

7:30: Meet in the lobby to go to Puerto Maduro for a "Welcome to BA (now we're awake)" dinner. (Dress nicely)

Journal #3: On being a tourist. Focus on one thing that surprised you today.

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Catch up on sleep . . . find a gym/pool

Explore. Return to La Boca (Quinquela Martín gallery, La Boca team museum and soccer stadium, shopping . . .) or San Telmo (visit the San Telmo flea market, open on Sunday only)

Journal #4: Reading Menus. Where do you see “Italian” food & culture? What makes it Italian?

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Morning free for exploration. Consider returning to Once or Belgrano, exploring other areas, or walking to the former “Tour de la Ingles” & Malvinas memorial, walking around Retiro, and visiting the site of Embassy bombing (a few blocks away)

Lunch on your own

make your own way to the 2:00 pm lecture at IES

2:00 – 4:00 pm: (IES) Lecture #1 & discussion: by Prof. Klaus Gallo (British politics in the Río de la Plaza at the end of the XIX century and beginning of the XX.)

Journal #5: Impressions. What did you see today? What did you feel?

Breakfast provided at the hotel

9:00 am: (IES) (Day trip) Visit Estancia “Las Talas”

http://www.estanciasargentinas.com/estancias/estancia-las-talas/estancia-las-talas.htm (The estancia is approximately two hours from BA.)

(Note: the estancia has a pool. You may wish to bring a bathing suit, towel and sun block lotion.)

Lunch provided at the estancia

Visit to the cathedral at Luján, home of the patron saint of Argentina

Journal #6. Journal on your response to today-open topic.

Breakfast provided at the hotel

10:00 am: departure. (IES) (Day trip) Visit old British railway town of Ranelagh.

Lunch provided at the Golf Club of Ranelagh.

Journal #7: Created Ethnicity: What was “British” about the people & places we saw today?

Breakfast provided at the hotel

9:00AM:Meet at the lobby of the hotel to get taxis to go to CEMLA as a group.

9:30 – 11:30 am: (CEMLA) Lecture #2 & discussion: by Alicia Bernasconi: “Argentina, a land of immigration” (Will cover from 19th century mass migrations to the present: continuity and change. Main immigrant groups and their integration in the country. Migration patterns across time. Immigration and emigration today.)

CEMLA (Center of Latin American Migratory Studies): http://www.guiasolidaria.pccp.net.ar/migrantes/04-cemla.htm

Lunch on your own.

3:00PM: Meet the group again at the “Plaza de Mayo” to attend the weekly march of the Madres de las Playa de Mayo (Begins at 3:30).

Explore Plaza de Mayo area of BA (consider visiting Casa Rosada or the Cabildo, or return to the Cathedral--check out the craft market behind the Cabildo)

Journal #8. Travel writing: Help someone else see one thing you saw today and feel what you felt. Hint: focus on the details. Imagine you are writing a photograph but try to catch what photographs cannot.

Breakfast provided at the hotel

9:00AM:Meet at the lobby of the hotel to get taxis to go to CEMLA as a group.

9:30 – 11:30 am: (CEMLA) Lecture #3 & discussion: by Alicia Bernasconi: History of Italian immigration in Argentina: regional origins, periods of immigration, institutional organization, etc.

Lunch on your own

make your own way to the 2:00 pm lecture

2:00 – 4:00 pm: (at IES) Lecture# 4 & discussion: by Ana Weinstein (AMIA): on the history of Jewish immigration in Argentina.

Journal #9. Free response. You had two lectures today. Write about one thing you learned. JOURNALS DUE TO SANDRA by 9:00PM

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Lunch on your own

Meet in the hotel lobby, 1:00: Cemetery tour (La Recoleta, Chacaritas, and The British Cemetery), end in Recoleta and explore or head back to the hotel

7:30: Meet in the lobby to go to Puerto Maduro for a group dinner. (Dress nicely)

Journal #Journal is optional today!

Breakfast provided at the hotel

10:00AM: Meet in the Lobby. Trip to El Tigre and Sarmiento’s House.

Free time – optional (but recommended)

Lunch on your own in Tigres"

Optional trip to the soccer museum in La Boca (see Sandra for details

"Dinner on your own back in BA"

Journal #10: Focus on one thing that surprised you today.

Breakfast provided at the hotel

8:40AM:Meet at the lobby of the hotel to get taxis to go to CEMLA as a group.

9:30 – 11:30 am: (CEMLA) Lecture #5 & discussion: by Alicia Bernasconi: “Italians and their descent in Argentina today” (Will include integration, relations with Italy, the so called "return migration" in the 21st century, etc.)”

Lunch on your own

make your own way to the 2:00 pm lecture)

2:00 – 4:00 pm: (IES) Lecture #6 & discussion: by Ana Weinstein (AMIA) on Jews in Argentina today. (Participation in government, education, etc. Attacks to the Israeli Embassy and AMIA, and Jews during the dirty war and the economic crisis of 2001-02)

Journal #11. Free response. You had two lectures today. Write about one thing you learned.

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Pack small overnight bag. Store remaining bags in Ada’s room. (Pack clothing in your book bag, or a bag of a similar size, for a three night trip. Weather is very hot. Bring bathing suits and sun block lotion.)

Lunch on your own

1:00 pm: (IES) Leave the hotel (after lunch) for the province of Santa Fe. Arrive at the city of Rafaela at approximately 6:00 pm. (Sleep one night in Rafaela).

Journal #12. Travel writing: Say something about the journey, the arrival, or how it felt to leave BA.

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Visit Moisés Ville: http://www.mville.com.ar/elpueblo/patrimoniohistorico.htm

(Province of Santa Fe)

Lunch provided

Visit Humboldt: http://www.santa-fe.gov.ar/gbrn/inforama/principal.php?id=806

(Province of Santa Fe)

Leave for Entre Ríos

Journal #13.Travel Writing: A sense of place. Make readers experience one moment of your day (Hint: focus on what you saw, heard, or felt)

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Visit Basavilbaso: http://www.intertournet.com.ar/entrerios/basavilbaso.htm

(Province of Entre Ríos)

Lunch provided

Visit Colonia San José http://www.nuevamuseologia.com.ar/museoentrerios.htm

Journal #14. Write about one thing you learned or saw today, or some-thing that surprised or saddened you

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Continue visit to Entre Ríos

Lunch provided

Return to Buenos Aires

Unpack and settle back in BA. Free evening

Journal #15. Final projects: an update of your progress (or lack of it)

Breakfast provided at the hotel

9:00AM:JOURNALS DUE TO SANDRA and ADA (at breakfast).

9:30-2:00: Work on research projects at the hotel and meet with Ada and Sandra (Ten minute meetings to discuss research -- see sign-up list).

Lunch on your own

2:00: Continue research as necessary based on research review meeting. Other suggestions:

o Visit Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) in Palermo Chico [http://www.malba.org.ar/], (Colección Costantini Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415, open until 6PM, admission free with student ID) and/or Museo Nacional de Belles Artes in Recoleta (Av. del Liberatador 1473, open until 7:30PM, admission free)

o Visit Belgrano for lunch or afternoon tea at a British Tea shop (take the subte line D to Juramento, or take a cab to Plaza General Manuel Belgrano and look at the church there, then check out “La Rosa Inglesa” on Juramento 2995 and the residential area

o Return to La Boca (check out Museo de la Pasión Boquense—Boca Juniors soccer museum and La Bombonera soccer stadium next door)

Journal #No entry due today--catch up on the blog!

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Free time – explore, return to La Boca, check out other areas, or continue your research (you may return to Tigre on your own if you wish to do so and your research is almost complete)

Lunch on your own

Journal #16. Response to feedback, or free topic

Free morning. Return to any area we have visited or find new places.

Lunch on your own

make your own way to the 2:00 pm lecture

2:00 – 4:00 pm: IES: Lecture #7 & discussion: by Prof. Maxine Hanon, on British families in Buenos Aires and surroundings.

Journal #17: cultural traces. What evidence do you see of immigrants in daily life in BA?

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Free morning and afternoon. Return somewhere or find new places, walk to the “Tour de la Ingles,” Malvinas memorial, & the site of Israeli Embassy bombing (see Jan 8); explore Belgrano and find that tea shop, or visit art museums (see Jan 20); go to Once (see Jan 22); or finish up research.

Lunch on your own

Continue research/exploration

(Eve) Farewell dinner with the group.

Journal #18. We’re leaving! What do you wish you had done? What are you glad you did?

Breakfast provided at the hotel

Free morning. Last minute shopping, PACK!

Lunch on your own

Check out of hotel.

Late afternoon:

5:50 PM: Depart for Airport.

Hand in in-country evaluations at the airport (or earlier)

9:40 pm: depart American Airlines flight #956

JOURNALS DUE TO SANDRA at breakfast

6:05 am: Arrive at JFK Airport

(Transportation to Drew available)