I keep careful notes of my budget while traveling, as you can probably see below. Traveling with NEH scholarship has allowed me to do transplant myself to a new town for weeks at a time to learn new stuff to take back to the classroom. For this NEH we were given a $2,100 scholarship that we were to use on everything for this program. As you can see I actually “made” a little bit of money in the end. NEH is one of the ways we keep our expenses low while still having fun in the summer.
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| EVENT | TIMES/ADDRESS/NOTES | ACTUAL COST USD |
| Pre Departure | ||
| Printing of readings | Office Depot | $22.92 |
| SUBTOTAL | $22.92 | |
| Sunday, July 7, 2019 | ||
| Frontier Air | MCO 6:39am – PWM 9:39am | $163.00 |
| Uber | Airport to Downtown Portland | $13.30 |
| Wander around Portland | mass @ St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, popping into random churches, & graveyards | $3.00 |
| Lunch: Arabica Coffee Company, Portland | Hummus & Veggie Wrap/Bee Stinger Latte | $16.14 |
| Uber | $14.76 | |
| Amtrak | Portland to Brunswick, Maine: 7:25-8:10pm | $3.00 |
| Check into dorms | $0.00 | |
| Rite Aid | shampoo, conditioner, hairspray, etc | $22.43 |
| Snack: Coffee by Design, Portland | Iced Raspberry Tea & Quiche | $8.78 |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $279.41 | |
| Monday, July 8, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast | Boho Coffee, Brunswick | $6.81 |
| Morning Session | Course Overview & Introduction | $0.00 |
| Lunch | Bowdoin College Meal Plan | $11.50 |
| Afternoon Session | Film: Triumph of the Will | $0.00 |
| Hannaford’s Groceries | grocery shopping | $59.92 |
| Welcome Dinner | *provided | $0.00 |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $113.23 | |
| Tuesday, July 9, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast | $0.00 | |
| Morning Session | John Heartfield’s Response to the Rise of Fascism | $0.00 |
| Lunch | Bowdoin College Meal Plan | $11.50 |
| Afternoon Session | $0.00 | |
| Dinner | cooked in dorm | $0.00 |
| Snack | $3.00 | |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $49.50 | |
| Wednesday, July 10, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast | $0.00 | |
| Morning Session | From the Swastika to the Yellow Star: Exploring the Nazi’s Visual Vocabulary of “Self-Love” and “Other-Hate” | $0.00 |
| Lunch | Bowdoin College Meal Plan | $11.50 |
| Afternoon Session | $0.00 | |
| Dinner: Sea Dog, Brunswick | I paid for another participant | $90.00 |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $136.50 | |
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast | $0.00 | |
| Morning Session | Art and Artists under Fascism: The Degenerate Art Exhibition and the Great German Art Exhibition | $0.00 |
| Lunch | Bowdoin College Meal Plan | $11.50 |
| Afternoon Session | Bowdoin College Museum of Art | $0.00 |
| Dinner & Trivia Night: Flight Deck Brewing | Food Truck: Lobster Wontons & Blueberry BBQ Chicken (another participant paid for my beer) | $20.00 |
| Uber | Flight Deck Brewing to Bowdoin College | $13.66 |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $80.16 | |
| Friday, July 12, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast: Boho Coffee, Brunswick | Onion bagel with Olive Cream Cheese & Tomato/Chai Tea Latte | $12.11 |
| Morning Session | Holocaust victims document their experience: Henryk Ross and Charlotte Salomon | $0.00 |
| Lunch | Bowdoin College Meal Plan | $11.50 |
| Afternoon Session | $0.00 | |
| Dinner: Shere Punjab, Brunswick | $20.00 | |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $78.61 | |
| Saturday, July 13, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast | $0.00 | |
| Drive to Mount Battie | ~1.5 hours drive/car rental paid by another participant | $0.00 |
| Mount Battie Ocean View Hike | ~2 hours | $0.00 |
| Lunch: Peters Otts, Camden | Dozen Oysters, Crab roll & Blueberry Gin & Tonic (I paid for everyone’s meal with my credit card & they paid me in cash) | $167.00 |
| Snack: Zoot Coffee, Camden | $4.10 | |
| Lincolnville Beach | $0.00 | |
| Drive to Freeport | ~1.5 hours drive | $0.00 |
| L.L.Bean Summer Concert | $0.00 | |
| Dinner: McDonalds | Cheeseburger & hotdog at concert stand (another participant paid for me) | $0.00 |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $206.10 | |
| Sunday, July 14, 2019 | ||
| Amtrak | Brunswick to Portland, Maine (another participant paid for me) | $0.00 |
| Uber | Train Station to Downtown | $8.64 |
| Breakfast: Becky’s, Portland | Commercial Street Sandwich & OJ (another participant paid for me) | $0.00 |
| Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception | $2.00 | |
| Lunch: Savage BBQ | Split a Brisket & Pork Plate | $31.00 |
| Sea Dogs Minor Baseball Game | another participant paid for me | $0.00 |
| Snack: Luke’s Lobster | Beer & Salad | $26.68 |
| Amtrak | Portland to Brunswick, Maine | $6.00 |
| Hannaford’s Groceries | $8.48 | |
| Dinner | cooked in the dorm | $0.00 |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $117.80 | |
| Monday, July 15, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast | $0.00 | |
| Morning Session | Imagining the Unimaginable: The Holocaust as told by Graphic Artist Art Spiegelman | $0.00 |
| Lunch | Bowdoin College Meal Plan | $11.50 |
| Afternoon Session | $0.00 | |
| Evening Session | Film: Europa Europa (1990) | $0.00 |
| Dinner | dorm | $0.00 |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $46.50 | |
| Tuesday, July 16, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast | $0.00 | |
| Morning Session | Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, Augusta | $0.00 |
| Lunch | *provided by program | $11.50 |
| Afternoon Session | $0.00 | |
| Evening | Film: Denial (2016) | $0.00 |
| Dinner: Libby’s Market, Brunswick | Lobster Roll & Vanilla Coke | $20.13 |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $66.63 | |
| Wednesday, July 17, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast: Little Dog Coffee | 16 oz iced mocha (bought for a participant) | $6.00 |
| Morning Session | The Muscular Jew in America and Memorialization of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | $0.00 |
| Lunch | $11.50 | |
| Afternoon Session | Survivor testimonies, clips from: Numbered, One Survivor Remembers, the Yale Fortunof Archive, and the Yad Vashem website | $0.00 |
| Dinner: Byrnes Irish Restaurant | $23.00 | |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $75.50 | |
| Thursday, July 18, 2019 | ||
| St. John Baptist Catholic Church, Brunswick | daily mass | $0.00 |
| Breakfast: Boho Coffee | Raspberry turnover | $3.35 |
| Morning Session | Germany and the U.S.: Memorialization of the Holocaust | $0.00 |
| Lunch | $11.50 | |
| Afternoon Session | $0.00 | |
| Final Celebration Dinner | $0.00 | |
| Dorm | $35.00 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $49.85 | |
| Friday, July 19, 2019 | ||
| Breakfast | $0.00 | |
| Morning Session | Presentations | $0.00 |
| Lunch | Bowdoin College Meal Plan | $11.50 |
| Uber | Brunswick to Airport | $20.00 |
| Delta*** | this flight got cancelled (see extra expenses below) | $288.00 |
| SUBTOTAL | $319.50 | |
| TOTAL | $1,598.60 | |
| National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarship | $2,100.00 | |
| Income Minus Expenses | $333.31 | |
| After my Return Flight was Cancelled | Wanna read a play by play of my cancellation adventure CLICK HERE | |
| Uber | Airport to Train/Bus Station | $14.06 |
| Concord Coach Bus | Brunswick, Maine to Boston, Massachusetts | $30 |
| AirBnb, Boston | $110.59 | |
| Dinner | $6.37 | |
| Uber | AirBnb to Airport | $7.07 |
| SUBTOTAL | $168.09 | |
