Although the slots for this year's trip are full, we plan to offer many more alternative breaks in the future for SDSU students. We are very grateful to those who made this financially possible for this year's students. The students at Hoover, located in City Heights, where more than 25 different languages are spoken, have emigrated from other parts of the state, the country, and the world. During their meetings, students discuss their heritage, rituals, and traditions. The project encourages students to acknowledge and appreciate other cultures and languages and learn more about their own.
Discussion focuses on assigned class readings about human migration and cultural persistence.
Once the foundation and interview are covered, the students reflect on the experience in a final course paper. The students appreciate the experience both during the semester and much later in their academic careers. In this project, remedial and ethnically-diverse students are empowered by their opportunities to mentor younger students who are like themselves. They and their Hoover counterparts are able to draw from their own experiences and those of their families in order to produce academic research papers. It makes me feel good.