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Each host family organizes and acompanies our ISSE delegation on a field trip. Today, Claudia and her mother, Claudia, arranged the field trip. Claudia is my host while here in Mexico! We visited two places Universum, Museo de la Ciencias and Cuicuilco pyramid. We started the day by loading into an

Arriving to Olinca today, you could feel the excitement in the air. Today, Mexico would be playing Uruguay in the World Cup. All of the students came to school wearing their green and black jerseys supporting their home team. Girls had red, green and white ribbons in their hair and many children had

Hace solo dos días que yo me despedí de mis estudiantes y colegas en mi escuela, The Gateway School of Environmental Research and Technology, en Bronx, Nueva York. Mientras mis estudiantes preparaban y estudiaban para sus exámenes del Regente, yo subí el avión y viajé a Ohio para pasar una noche con

It was a beautiful morning in Mexico City! The sun came up - the first time we have had a sunrise without clouds since we have arrived! The children were so excited to get to Olinca today. Yesterday was Father's Day and we did not have group activities...we did not see each other! Everyone was on

Only two days ago, I closed down my classroom and said goodbye to students and colleagues at The Gateway School of Environmental Research and Technology, in Bronx, New York. As my students prepared for their state Regents exams, I flew home to Ohio for an evening with my family before heading down

They say all things come in threes, hmm, I don’t think so. The past few days can be pretty well defined as the “double whammy”. We have been fortunate enough to have two extra generations of family members in the house simultaneously – our children and our parents. We had two happy events our

Today was the day our host students have been preparing for over the past 5 years...today was their Primary Years Program. This was an Exhibition of a culmination of everything they learned since first grade! It was great to watch them present their projects, presentations, sing and dance. They were

18 Junio 2010...Our first FULL day in Mexico!The students and chapreones arrived at Olica with their host families. All of the students arrived by private vehicle. There are no big yellow school buses in Mexico City! Traffic is a problem...Miss Adriana, the ISSE Coordinator for Olinca Periferico

Today I went down to the Polar Field headquarters in Littleton, Colorado to see Robbie Score who had gathered up my gear for the expedition. It was great to see Robbie again. We hung out together a bit in Fairbanks during the orientation. Polar Field has a nice office with about 20 employees. Their

The acronym for our project is ICE AGED. That stands for Investigating Change in Ecology in Antarctica by Gizmologists, Educators, and Divers, which is much more appealing than the formal scientific title of our project, which is LTREB: Collaborative Research: Decadal Variation in Antarctic Marine