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Immersion: La Salle Education Center, Florida Zoom Session - EWeek 2024

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but you decide so can everybody see my screen can we do the thumbs up but looking good alright thank you alright and ask people when I will invite them to join us and we are done with the song though I really like it so my name is Talia sakowitz and I will be leading our first-ever trip to Homestead Florida to the LaSalle Educational Center in this meeting I will share a little bit about Homestead and DeLaSalle Educational Center and what our plan is for a trip this week so the agenda a little bit about me why Homestead let's look at the itinerary which is still not 100% solidified the elements are there the dates not fully locked down and then if you have any questions you're welcome to ask them any point in the chat and I don't think I'll be reviewing policies today this is an emergency trip so I'm hoping that policies we can discuss later so just in case you're interested in who you might be traveling with her a child might be traveling with my name is Italia stock quote this is my sixth year at St Mary's my third year as an AP Spanish teacher and also my third year leading a travel trip so I went to Puerto Rico right as the pandemic was closing down and in Columbia last year so I have traveled extensively in Latin America and this year we're looking at Homestead Florida homestead is in the very south of Miami-Dade County it is a mission connected trip which can two are lasallian identity working with a partner lasallian organization in a different lasallian District the eastern district of the United States and it is an opportunity for us to give an intern receive and I don't know if you can see the quotes from St John Baptist De La Salle so a little bit about Homestead it's an agricultural community in Southwest Miami-Dade County it's overwhelmingly Latin X at the Central Valley this is an area that provides a lot of food or the country the median household income is low the income of the community that will be working with is even lower so we'll be worth Ennis Center for agricultural workers Ellis Island Educational Center so it is a center in a community sponsored by both HUD and the USDA for agricultural workers particular and they have to be below the poverty line in order to live in his community of about 300 families it is a safe and nurturing environment it's an opportunity for people living there to get an integral formation and it helps students and they're the children of these workers and their parents gain additional skills and raising sells out of poverty so the community is not a lasallian community the lasallian center is in this community sponsored by both High and the USDA the majority of people served are migrants from across Latin America who work in farms and nurseries in Homestead the center offers after school care adult classification of work they help women figure out how to earn extra income that English and Spanish classes and last I heard they were planning a GED program I don't know if it's actually taking place they also give food a couple times and there'll be a food program while we're there and this is a quote from somebody within that was selling education center always a good thing to offer a sense of community Denton being regardless of circumstances and better yet if Community of Hope so this trip again is going to be the first trip to the community we are hoping to get 8 to 12 students maximum we're going to live communally in a building just like people in the rest of the community do but we'll have it easier than that because we'll have air conditioning and they don't it'll be an experience where we'll have a lot of time to reflect and they informed me from those selling Educational Center that while there is some work to do will be working in the after-school program will be participating in a food drive a lot of the experience is just about accompaniment living with people as they live and breath you know what does it mean that we live in a society where people have to work in these types of conditions or are only earning below minimum wage or minimum wage to make the food that we all depend on every day and I have go hear from Dolores Huerta who does not work in Homestead but it's the quote on my page for school my academic page giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much much more important that you stay other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people and so from the mouth of the great Dolores Huerta that is what this trip is not just thinking about our own enjoyment but really how we can being solidarity and in community with these people who live in Homestead the itinerary is still in progress the elements are there the day that I have not walk down will be travelling between March 1st and March 9th and its 1 flight from SFO to Miami which is nice we should be arriving I hope to arrive in the early evening so that nobody has to do a red eye on the Everglades are very close to Homestead so we'll do a date or Little Havana is also in Miami and there is a lasallian school which I hope we can visit at the lasallian high school most of the time as you can see we're going to be in Homestead so there will be activities for us while we're there but a lot of it is just being with the community as they told me in my conversation the leaders of lasallian educational center the goals for us to live simply with them and they live simple lies so we'll be making our own food will be inviting people from the community to eat with us will be playing with kids will be supporting them in there after will work and we'll be living Subway let's see so that is it this is the first trip is an opportunity to help break new ground in Homestead Florida and let me check if there's any questions I know some people joined a little later escaped my screen and you can speak up or if you'd like to join the chat yeah great question do I have a sense of what a day will be like so in the mornings we will be great great questions I see two questions so in the morning I think we're going to be in the community speaking with the lasallian brother who works there he shared with me that he's like quite a few trips for students it's a pretty popular location so we Preserve there's a lot of colleges in the area that also want to go there kind of like thinking of like a junior Retreat or a senior Retreat there's time for reflection we have to make our food we all have to shower there's two bathroom you know we have to clean up there is no trash pick up we have to go take the trash away we prepare ourselves for the afternoon and every any activities we want to lead with kids after they get tutored then we have tutoring we have to feed ourselves of course there's tutoring from 2 to 6 and then we can can you to hang out with children and play with children and then I think final check ins in the evenings reflecting what have we done today would have we gotten out of this what can we do tomorrow how are we doing communal living Co-op experience a wonderful time there will be one day when will be giving food out it's possible I wanted to visit one of the Agricultural Farms there's some liability issues so we might go to a U-Pick farm and nobody's paying us to do this work but how does it feel to be in the humid heat of Florida and work in a field you know so we won't do it to the you know as actual labor labor but we can pick some up a food that way the age of the kids were working with it's just the age of the kids of the families that live in this community so I imagine there's a pretty widespread and the families that will be giving food to are in the community as well and so I'm not sure exactly where those drop-offs will be at this point she's somebody else joins the meeting so the kids will actually tutoring plan activities with the kids that is the hope we are going to be meeting in advance with immersion trips you don't just show up for the for the flight not any trip really but emerging Tristan particular there is a series of meetings that take place in advance to make sure that we're on the same page that we have a plan and we're all working together as a team and we go there offering as much as we can write they don't know plus they don't have any expectations about us I think we have so much to give with just ourselves so yeah definitely will plan activities will do things and learn from them what exactly do they want us to contribute I stated before if you're interested in having a trip or you're just like working nonstop I've heard that blackfeet is there there the full school day and I know that in Thailand safe to build so this is Annika element trip solidarity learning being together and Community is it is I was told that a lot of the people who get the most out of experience don't speak Spanish because what a struggle to communicate when you don't speak the language what a humbling experience with that said I know a lot of people have some level of English and there's a lot of ways to communicate if you're not fluent in Spanish this is a really good way to get better in Miami in general Spanish will get you everywhere another question was how many adults will be accompanying there will be two adults on the trip I am one in the second y'all will be determined again we're hoping to have eight to 12 people with me on the trip are there any other question or any other comments Miss monelli if there's anything you wanted to add in I know right I'm really excited that we're trying this is a new site we tried very much too a variety of emerging opportunities so we are really excited I'm really grateful for the sakowitz for pioneering this trip and figuring this out yeah we haven't done it but the brother Peter who is this who is oversees the program is really a wonderful human being and I know he was very excited to welcome some some of our kids no one from our district of San Francisco New Orleans District has actually visited Homestead yet so we're hoping to be the first ones from our district and hopefully not the last needless to say I see some very familiar names on here neither one's you guys have any other questions well for any of you who are on this call who want to come and check in with me as well I think we'll whatever you've had me for Spanish so I meant to 24 Murphy really happy to talk with you going to be a small group can be a tight-knit group we're going to have a good time I guarantee this trip will change you and I look forward to being on that Journey with you and also being changed so if there's no further questions I'll stay on for a minute I'll stop recording and if you want to ask any questions it's a great time let me let me know stop recording I used to be so good

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