The Urban Life Center makes all the arrangements, including lodging, orientation, and placements in the schools and neighborhood centers. Wade accompanied her first group of students on their trip last year. I told the Urban Life Center to consider me another student. I helped in a classroom with a teacher, observed small groups, ate with the kids. After school, I went to a recreation center and shot hoops with the kids and helped them with their homework.
Multicultural education is for everyone.
Even if I'm teaching in a rural, homogeneous, all-white setting, it's important for me to enrich my classroom by teaching about different cultures and about the world that those kids are going to enter into. For that, Cancun can wait.