San Diego City College Program 2017: July 2-29th

Day 1:
Sunday July 2 / Day 2:
Monday July 3 / Day 3:
Tuesday July 4 / Day 4:
Wednesday July 5 / Day 5:
ThursdayJuly 6 / Day 6: Friday July 7 / Day 7: Saturday July 8
Morning / No Bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/ 1 hour lunch break / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/ 1 hour lunch break / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/ 1 hour lunch break / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/ 1 hour lunch break(2 hour guest lecture on Cuban music by Professor Alberto Faya) / Optional: Excursion to Pinar del Rio Province / Hike to cave and explore underground cave
Afternoon / Arrive to Cuba
Transfer to Homestays / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Group lunch / Group lunch
Evening / Walking tour of old Havana
Welcome Dinner / 3:30-5:00 Welcome to CEM lecture on Jose Marti
Dinner in Casas / Dinner in Casas / Dinner in Casas / Dinner in Casas
Outing: Visit Fabrica de arte(warehouse converted into music venue/art gallery/club) / Visit Tobacco farm
Night in Vinales / Free time in vinales
Night in Vinales
Day 8: Sunday July 9 / Day 9: Monday July 10 / Day 10: Tuesday July 11 / Day 11: Wednesday July 12 / Day 12: Thursday July 13 / Day 13: Friday July 14 / Day 14: Saturday July 15
Morning / Vinales to Las Terrazas (1 hour)
-Visit Coffee plantation ruins and hike in las terrazas / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/
1 hour lunch break / 8:30-1:30 Class
(2 hour guest lecture on race by Roberto Zurbano) / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/ 1 hour lunch break / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class
w/ 1 hour lunch
break / Optional: Excursion
to Playa Giron with
stop in
Matanzas
Visit Ediciones Vigia
Publishing house / Visit museum in Playa Giron
Afternoon / Group lunch at
farm in Las
Terrazas / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Group lunch In
Matanzas / Group lunch
Evening / Free time at Rio
San juan for
Swimming
Return to
Havana
Dinner in Casas / Dinner in Casas / 3:30-6:30 Tour of
Mariano neighborhood
(explore issues of
migration,religion, race,
health, etc)
Dinner in Casas / 3:00-4:00 Salsa dancing class
Dinner in Casas
Outing: Salsa dancing at club 1830 / Dinner in Casas / Folkloric dance
performance in Matanzas
Continue to Playa
Giron
Night in Playa Giron / Time at beach to snorkel, relax at beach
Night in Playa Giron
Day 15: Sunday July 16 / Day 16: Monday July 17 / Day 17: Tuesday July 18 / Day 18: Wednesday July 19 / Day 19: Thursday July 20 / Day 20: Friday July 21 / Day 21: Saturday July 22
Morning / Time at Playa Giron beach for snorkeling, etc / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/ 1 hour lunch break / 8:30-1:30 Class
(2 hour guest lecture on contemporary Cuba by Daybel Panellas) / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/ 1 hour lunch break / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/ 1 hour lunch break / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/
1 hour lunch break / 10:00-1:00 Tour of
Fortress system
(UNESCO world
heritage site)
Afternoon / Group lunch / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / Lunchon own / Lunch on own
Evening / Return to Havana
Dinner in Casas / Dinner in Casas / 3:00-6:00 Social Actors Tour exploring cooperatives in old havana
Dinner in Casas / Dinner in Casas / Dinner in Casas / Dinner in casas / Dinner in casas
Day 22: Sunday July 23 / Day 23: Monday July 24 / Day 24: Tuesday July 25 / Day 25: Wednesday July 26 / Day 26: Thursday July 27 / Day 27: Friday July 28 / Day 28: Saturday July 29
Morning / 10:00-12:00 Visit cuban art museum / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class
w/ 1 hour
lunch break / Excursion to Santa Clara / Day in nearby coastal town Caibarien. Visit museum / Workshop at
Club Mejunje / No bus needed
8:30-2:00 Class w/
1hour lunch break / Leave for the United States
Afternoon / Lunch on own / Lunch on own / group lunch / group lunch / Group lunch
Return to havana / Lunch on own
Evening / Dinner in casas / Dinner in casas / -visit che memorial and battle sites. Tour of santa clara
Night in santa Clara / Night in Santa Clara
Optional: club mejunje / Dinner
in Casas / Farewell Dinner