Format: Daily travel blog
Platform: Tumblr
Dates: May–June 2017

OVERVIEW

In 2017 I studied abroad in Havana for a Maymester and blogged every day of the trip: the Museum of the Revolution, Guanabo Beach, Fábrica de Arte, the Instituto Superior de Arte, lectures on race in Cuba, the Champions League final at a café, and what it’s like trying to get online. Honest, unedited, written the night of.

THE POSTS

June 1, 2017Day 4
Today we wen to the museum of the revolution. The Cuban revolution is a really confusing topic because it didnʼt just stop after one war. there were two wars: the Ten Year Way and the Three Year War. I wonʼt go into more detail…
June 2, 2017Day 5
I realized I didnʼt really want to be in Cuba anymore. My goal was to improve my Spanish speaking skills. The way the program is set up, we are told so much specifics about history, etc when we are on our tours that I am not at…
June 3, 2017Day 6
Had to wake up early to finish my journal entries for “class.” I watched the champions league finals at a cafe. Reid an I were betting very small quantities of money—1 Cuban Peso, which is like 1/24 of a Cuban Convertible Peso…
June 4, 2017Day 7
Today was hands down the best day in Cuba for me so far. 4 of us went to Guanabo Beach. It was so beautiful. I think I’m a beach person. But that wasn’t what made it the best. We met people. After Reid was done playing soccer…
June 5, 2017Day 8
Thankfully I feel like today was not an overactive or exhausting day. We didn't have to go on a trip to anywhere. We just stayed at casa for our lecture on race, which was very interesting btw. There's a lit of racial…
June 6, 2017Day 9
Today we went to the art museum. I keep seeing this so I have to mention it: Reid got sun poisoning when we went to the beach on Sunday. I had no idea that existed. It’s so gross. You get these boils/sacs of puss popping out of…
June 7, 2017Day 10
I keep going back and forth between trying to be at places early and maximizing my productivity with the technique of taking small moments, even if only a few minutes, and get that little productivity in. Progress is progress…
June 8, 2017Day 11
I finally went to Fabrica de Arte. It was so dope. I can’t believe people from New School are already off that. There were different DJ’s, live music, a movie playing on a big screen, and places to just talk. And we saw people…
June 9, 2017Day 12
In Cuba, lemons and limes have the same name; they’re basically the same thing here. There’s no distinguishing factor. I find that weird. I had too many drinks the night before and was throwing up and couldn’t hold down food…
June 10, 2017Day 13
Cuba is a different experience when you have Internet. People have been going out to the club and out for drinks the last couple days and I’m perfectly fine staying at the crib and being a homebody…provided I have Internet. It’s…
June 11, 2017Day 14
It would suck to be a domesticated horse in Cuba. Probably a horse in general. Well no because she people have transferred where horse can roam free. There’s something about the constructing nature of the blinders people put on…
June 12, 2017June 12, 2017
Today was more or less not my day. Beforehand, a lady that is always cranky got an attitude with us. We all knew at this point we should only have 5 people in the elevator, even though the capacity is 8 people. Itʼs a really old…
June 13, 2017June 13, 2017
Field trip to the instituto superior de arte. It was dope because we could buy work from people that did ceramics, or other kinds of art. We saw everything there except performing arts because they didnʼt have a theater school…
June 14, 2017June 14, 2017
At this point everyone is starting to check out in the lectures. Several people were sleeping today and on their phones/not taking notes on their laptops, myself included. Today was Cafe Consciencia. An underground meeting put on…