Children's Rights in Argentina

In advance: I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LACK OF POSTS + the M.I.A. I have been too tired/ busy to write on the side.

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Argentina... What an experience!

I still can't believe it's been a month since we returned from the hot summer heat of that place.

Since my return, my face has decided to go haywire and break out a shit ton... Hmm. Oh well. My face is just bad with adapting I guess.

Whatevs. 

ANYHOOheehaaawheee

Back to the topic of my trip, in my Dragons, Pheonixes and Pork post, I talked about the food and the hostel... Now it's time to talk about what we did... :) 

So, just a mini summary on the purpose of us being there...

Our topic was Children's Rights in Argentina, as the title of this post has so kindly pointed out...

We did lots to aid our understanding of the topic. However, in order to understand our topic, we had to learn about the history of Argentina in the last decade.

But hands-on wise, we did a lot...

Here are a list of places we went to/attended:

Evita Museum

Plaza de Mayo 

to watch the march of las abuelas

to see the memorial plaques dedicated to los desaparicidos

we also visited Judge Tolasco who was presiding over the trial against the 

militia who were involved in the disappearance of the youth.

met and had an interview with high school students

who are involved in advocating the issue in school

and who host the camp outs in the high schools

ESMA

where the youth were tortured before being murdered

around the soccer stadium near ESMA that hosted the 1978 World Cup

Parque de la Memoria

Memorial park to remember those whose lives were lost

Jaguel de Maria

The foster home located an hour away from Buenos Aires

The kids were so friendly and adorable 

That was basically what we did in a nutshell. It was one of the coolest most interesting 2 weeks of my life.

Learning about the history and stuff I had been so sheltered from. Boy, I will never forget.

There were more things we did that I didn't include in here but you're totes welcome to visit the blog!

Oh hey!! One more cool thing! on the 9th of March, we will be headed to California State University San Bernadino  for a conference to talk about our Learning Cluster. This is so exciting! If you so happen to be around that area, do remember to drop by ;) 

PS- Sorry again for the super long M.I.A-ness.