< WAGGGS

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Members' area

2008 Schedule

October 13 - 18
Explore Mexico and Our Cabana through Guiding Eyes - Adults -

 
 If you are thinking of bring a group or troop down to Mexico for a event but would like to see what it is like for yourself first then this is the ideal event for you.
 
This 5 night event begins in Mexico City and gives you a chance to explore some of the wonderful sights during a 2 day tour of the city. An overnight stay at Ticalli Guide Hostel in Mexico City for the first night will be the perfect place to make new friends and visit with other participants. We then travel to Our Cabaña in Cuernavaca and here you can discover for yourself the beauty of this world centre and everything that you will need to know about planning a trip to Mexico. There are trips to Cuernavaca and Taxco and there is also a service project during this event.

Prepare yourself before anyone else and come to explore Mexico and take away any doubts that you may have about a trip of a lifetime to your Guiding and Scouting home in Mexico.

 

October 27 - November 4
Mexican Festivals & Traditions - Day of the Dead -Adults-

This eight night event will focus on Mexican traditions, particularly the Day of the Dead . In this most characteristic celebration, the souls of the dead are believed to return to earth on November 2. Families build altars in their homes and visit graveyards to commune with their dead, taking garlands and gifts of the dead one’s favourite foods and objects. A happy atmosphere prevails. Flowers are used in profusion, especially marigolds which have had ceremonial importance since before Spanish times. 

As the Day of the Dead approaches, shops and markets fill with countless toy coffins and paper, cardboard and clay skeletons, many of them engaged in lively activities such as riding a bicycle, playing music, or getting married. Most amazing are the rows of chocolate and candy skulls, skeletons, and coffins that appear in market stalls -- an obvious indication of the almost joyful nature of the festival, which reunites the living with their dead. You will see skull and skeleton motifs everywhere -- devices which the Mexicans use to continually remind themselves of their own mortality.
Cost: US$ 560.00 per person plus US$ 120.00 Program Fee
Status: Spaces available 
Register at: ourcabana@ourcabana.org.mx

November 10 – 19 Taste of Mexico & girls worldwide say: “build a better world”

This is the last chance that you will have to come to Our Cabaña and enjoy this event. Our 9 night "Taste of Mexico" event is where you not only get the chance to try your hand at our culinary skills in our Mexican kitchen, but also take an overnight trip to visit one of Mexico’s archaeological sites in Cholula and Puebla.
You will also have the chance to work in a service project with Habitat for Humanity to collaborate with them in the construction of houses for local families. Together we could build a better world.
 
Cost: US$ 630.00 per person plus US$ 120.00 Program Fee
Status: Spaces available 
Register at: ourcabana@ourcabana.org.mx

December 29 – January 6
New Year – Girl Friendship event -Girls with their leaders-

This event is held over the New Year in December. Participants from different countries come to Our Cabaña to welcome the New Year with us.
During this event we take part in a service project with the local communities and usually this involves children from the communities coming to Our Cabana to take part in a days activities that we have planned for them. 

We have trips to several places of local interest. These include Cuernavaca, the city where Our Cabana is situted, Taxco the silver capital of Mexico and Tepotzlan, a traditional Mexican Craft market town. Throughout the 8 night sessions we have games, songs, activities, campfires, flag 
ceremonies and much much more.
 
Cost: US$ 560.00 per person plus US$ 90.00 Program Fee
(Extra adults pay an additional fee of US$ 100.00
Register at: ourcabana@ourcabana.org.mx