Argentina

The hills of Cordoba

Two hosts Two Towns

• Erica Carignano from Villa Maria in the Pampas of Cordoba Province

• Anahi Segura from Villa Allende in the hills near the city of Cordoba

Villa MariaA charming town of about 80,000 people in the

Pampas.

Erica teaches at four schools

Escuela Bellagano combines elementary and secondary

schools.

Most schools are a combination of public and private. The state pays teacher salaries

and the tuition maintains the facility and provides supplies.

Presentations

Time for friendly hugs and snapshots

Principal and Vice Principal(Don’t know why he’s smiling; he earns $9,000.00 a

year.)

Time to meet the family…

…and have a bite to eat.

Erica’s many friends invite us to share meals with their families.

If you spot a vegetable in this presentation – you win!

Look at that beautiful smile! It’s almost 11pm; we’ve just finished dinner after a long day of teaching, and Erica looks fresh as a daisy. (The red eyes are the fault of the photographer.)

How

convenient!

Erica’s family owns a small

café.

Back to school

Escuela Secundario de LecheA school dedicated to milk production.

Spotless laboratoriesMicro/Macro bacteriology

Pharmaceutical and Water Testing

Dairy ProductsDulce Leche (caramel)-Cream-Milk-Butter-Yogurt-Ice Cream-

Cheese

The Bakery

Classroom friends

TeenagersThe same everywhere

A little matte break

Picnic in the park with the fam

A memorial for the “disappeared”

Workshop Seminar for Teachers of Writing at Escuela Normal Victor Mercante

Students are prepared to take notes on a lecture…

… Instead, they are assigned a collaborative writing task in

small groups.

The seminar appears well received.

Time for a little shopping with new friends.

A teacher’s lounge is universal…

…as are the friendships made at work.

A poor, rural school is kept alive by the efforts of a

foundation.

These “ladies who lunch” are retired teachers and the Fundacion Cultural Dr. Antonio Sobral. They support the rural

school.

Museum visit courtesy of the foundation.

Argentinian dogs – the most intelligent in the world.

It is time to say good-bye to the students of Villa Maria

This is harder than I expected!

It’s time for the exchange of gifts and a final round of snapshots.

The gift of a dance performance

Adios, Villa Maria!

Time to drive in our propane fueled car the 200 km to Villa

Allende.

Anahi Segura welcomes us to Cordoba.

Time to meet the family and…

…have a bite to eat!

Grilled meat (asado) is an Argentinian specialty.

Erica’s and Anahi’s families visit for a relaxing BBQ on the

weekend.

Back to school!Anahi teaches at two schools

More presentations

Can you find the Greenville tee shirt? How about the GHS yearbook?

Time out for a peak at my lovely hotel

Time for classes at Instituto Paula Albarracin de

Sarmiento (“Paula”) – Anahi’s other school.

I wonder how many of these group shots are in my camera

…lots!

Time for a taste of city life• Cordoba is

Argentina’s second largest city in the center of Cordoba Province.

• It has an excess of a million people and is home to the oldest university in the country.

A presentation for student teachers at Zorrila de

San Martin on the American school system and the process of college application. College is free in Argentina.

A day trip into the country

Estancia Santa Catalina (1622)

Estancia De Caroya (1616)

Around town in Villa Allende

Back to school. This time it’s the Instituto

Secundario The New Millenium

Like its name, this school has a slick, modern feel.

Back at “Paula”, it’s time for a last round of classes and good-

byes.

Before we leave, how about a little dancing?

Name this dance!

An exchange of gifts

Ciao!