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QUEST - SAMPLE PROGRAM

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Day 1

6:15 pm
9:00 pm

 

Airport Pick-up, Mexicana Airlines, # 851
Arrive at QUEST

Day 2

8:00 am
8:30 am
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:15 am
1:30 pm
4:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm

 

Breakfast (at 8:00 am every day, unless otherwise noted)
Intro’s/ Health and Hospitality/ Hopes and Fears
Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Intro. To La Estacion Squatter Settlement
Visit families at Squatter Settlement: Patios de La Estacion
Lunch
Debrief of La Estacion/ Orientation to Program
Supper
A Domestic Worker’s Witness:  Ofelia Laureano

Day 3

8:30 am
9:00 am
2:30 pm
4:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm

 

Intro to “Cuernavaca Quest”
Leave on the “Quest”
Lunch
“Quest” Debrief
Understanding the reality
Supper
History of Mexico: Dr. Ross Gandy

Day 4

9:00 am  
12:30 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm

 

Visit the home of Estella in the Ravine
Reflection
Lunch
Afternoon for journaling
Supper
History of Mexico: Dr. Ross Gandy

Day 5

9:00 am  
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.
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1:30 pm
2:30 pm
6:30 pm

 

Group Reflection
Game “Zapatos y Zapatas”
Analysis of the reality
Video: “This is what Free Trade looks like”
Lunch 
Marketing Artisans Co-op: Shopping Opportunity
Supper/free evening

Day 6

9:00 am
10:00 am
2:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm

 

Group Check-In
Indigenous Spirtuality / Temaxcal; Estella Roman
Lunch at Estella’s and free time till supper
Supper
Visit with returned Migrant “Maggie”

Day 7

9:00 am
12:30 pm
1:30 pm
3:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm

 

Social Work in Mexico: Alvaro Nunez Castaneda
Group reflection
Lunch
Intro to Chiapas; Video: Zapatista/ Intro. to the “School of the Americas”
Supper
Encounter of Zapatista Caracoles: Hector

Day 8

9:00 am
9:15 am
10:15am
12:00pm
1:30 pm
2:30 pm
7:00 pm

 

Intro. To Community of San Andres de la Cal
Leave for the Community of San Andres de La Cal
Meet with Traditional healer “Delfina”
Dialogue with “The Women left Behind” / Community Organizer
Lunch at the home of: Regina Flores
Depart to Tepoztlan:/Free Afternoon
Supper:  Hand out of Mid-Evals

Day 9
 

 

Options Day (All meals will be served at the regular times. Please sign the list if you will be at QUEST for the meals)

Day 10

9:00 am
11:00am
11:30am
3:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm

 

Mid-Eval. feedback, Visit Families in the Indigenous Mountain Village of
Tlamacazapa
(Picnic Lunch)
Arrive in village
Supper
Debrief

Day 11

9:30 am
1:30 pm
3:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm

 

La Jornada Morelos A Newspaper Editor looks at Mexico and the U.S: Jaime Brito
Group reflection
Lunch
Supper
Overview of GLBT Issues in Mexico: Alfonso

Day 12

9:30 am

1:30 pm
3:00 pm
6:30 pm

 

Women and Health: Carmen Granados
Reflection and Journaling Time
Lunch
A Salvadorian Witness: Gloria Cruz
Supper/Free Evening

Day 13

9:00 am
1:30 pm
4:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm

 

“Education”: Liberating? Domesticating?: Arturo Ornelas, PhD
Lunch
Alternatives: Wrap-Up: Issue Analysis / Final Evaluations
Supper
Closing Program

Day 14

7:00 am
7:30 am
10:00 pm

 

Leave for bus station
Depart on Pullman de Morelos bus to Airport
Depart on Mexicana Airlines,  Arrive Denver

   
Note: We recommend that free time be used for rest and relaxation and personal reflection/journaling so that you can maximize your time at QUEST. We encourage leadership from the group outside the schedule.