Outside of Santiago de Cuba, on a hike to the Monument to the Runaway Slave (Monumento del Cimarrón) with the Virgin of Copper Church (Iglesia de la Virgen del Cobre) in the background (photo by Navid Nowrouzi '16)
At the Wall of Heroes at the Moncada Barracks Museum in Santiago de Cuba, site of the outbreak of the 1953 revolution (Nowrouzi)
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Yankova found it eye-opening to witness how “Cubans live in two parallel but increasingly more divided worlds, one made for the locals and one made for the outsiders who come to Cuba as visitors.” Also on the mini-term were Mary Nell Cella ’16, Christopher Graff ’16, Hannah Hage ’16, Spencer Kahler ’17, Caelin Kaplan ’16, Navid (Kian) Nowrouzi ’16, Brendan O’Connor ’17, Melissa Rodriguez’16, Nurisha Rodriguez ‘’16, Yareli Rodriguez ’16, Madison Shapiro ’17, Brian Teitelbaum ’17, Tyler Valenti ’16, Quisqueya Witbeck ’16, Anthony Wright ’17 and Drew Zangrillo ’17. The group delivered sports equipment, gathered from students on campus and from the Athletic Department, to a community in Havana and brought school supplies to an elementary class in Santiago de Cuba.