Activities

• The class will spend one month in Mexico. As a class, they are responsible for planning the entire trip. Their planning projects include:

  writing to the Mexico Travel Bureau and requesting all available information on travel, expense, etc. (i.e., bus routes, trains, planes-their routes, fares, and schedules)

  writing to the Mexico Chamber of Commerce or Tourist Bureau for maps sending for the South American Handbook (a British publication) determining as a group where they want to go in Mexico researching historical information on the various sites they plan to visit setting up appointments for shots, passport pictures, etc. learning about currency exchange rates.

Resources

• travel agency
• Chamber of Commerce
• United Nations
• Mexican Oficina de Turisnu
• American Express Office
• American Embassy
• Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Spanish records, tapes, movies, history books, etc.
• Southern American Handbook

Variations

• Plan trips to other countries.