LEW-PORT: Students, staff heading to Argentina

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October 5, 2009

By Amy Wallace The Niagara Gazette Mon Oct 05, 2009, 11:33 PM EDT

Lewiston-Porter High School sophomore Mackenzie Olson has a little bit of experience in international travel.

Sort of.

“I’ve been to Canada,” she said, “but nowhere else.”

That’ll all change this weekend as last minute preparations are under way for students and staff from the Lewiston-Porter School District for a two-week trip to Argentina.

The students, along with faculty and parent chaperones, will leave for Mendoza, Argentina Friday and return Oct. 23.

“I am really looking forward to staying with the host families and working on my Spanish,” Olson said of the trip. “I am really excited to try the food there too.”

The trip is being sponsored by the International Studies Academy, a student group at the high school.

“We have sister schools in Argentina, China, Belgium and Germany,” Spanish teacher John Mango said. “The students will stay with host families in Mendoza and next year, students from Argentina will come here.”

Mango said the trip is paid for by parents, with the help of fundraisers held by the group throughout the year.

The 13 Lew-Port students will be attending the Colegio Juan Agustin Maza school in Mendoza during their stay and go to classes with students from their host family.

In case your wondering, the students will be well supervised.

“Seven adults, including myself, high school Principal Paul Casseri, Mango, a special education teacher, school counselor and a parent of one of the students who happens to be a doctor, will be accompanying the students,” Social Studies teacher Amy Townsend said. “The faculty and teachers will also stay with host families, primarily other teachers at the school.”

Along with taking classes at the school in Mendoza, the Lew-Port students will take some field trips to Buenos Aires and a trip to a mountain range on the border of Argentina and Chile. Students and advisors will spend three days in Buenos Aires.

“We will see several things including Plaza del Congreso, Plaza de Mayo, Puerto Madero, El Obelisco, la zona commercial y la zona centrica, Recoleta, Palermo, San Telmo, La Boca,” Mango said. “There will also be a guided tour of El Tigre, the delta area of the city.”

For many of the students, this will be their first trip with the group or out of the country for that matter.

“This is my first trip,” sophomore Kate Mieth said. “I’m really excited. Everything is going to be really unexpected.”

Mieth said she is most looking forward to taking tango lessons at the welcome party for the students on their first night in Argentina.

Sophomore Alex Bertolino said she is looking forward to meeting new people and seeing new cultures.

“We’re going to do some tourist things like go to the mountains,” Bertolino said. “I hope to get better with my Spanish too.”

Sophomore Alexis Scriven said she couldn’t wait to “make memories with the people I’m traveling with.”

The advisors are excited to see what the students gain from their experience.

“Hopefully, they’ll learn that there’s a whole world out there to explore,” Townsend said. “It will be an eye-opening experience.”

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