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Making up a choreography and teaching it to the group.

Jordanna Masse

It’stoohardtopickjustone!Iwroteinmyjournalafewdaysafter wearrivedinCubathat“girlsnights,girlswalks,girlsbedroom talks,arekeepingmesomewhatsane.Thereissomuchbeautyin femininityandallthewomenIamsurroundedby.Theirstrength andkindnessprovidemewithenergyandhope.”SoI’dsay somethingI’llneverforgetisthegentlemomentswespenttogether learningabouteachotherandaboutothers.

The Che Guevara monument, as it made me learn more about his life and personality. Much of the information I learned was new to me, which seemed odd to me, given that I felt his larger-than-life status should have made what we learned about him more commonly known. Our tour of the museum within the monument made me reflect on how people who become global icons of his stature are seen more as symbols than as people and tend to, in a sense, lose their humanity in the eyes of society at large, as they are defined less by who they themselves were than what they mean to other people.