Meagan Gutierrez is a senior double major in English and Secondary Education. On our second day at Black Mountain Mennonite Church, a local teacher came to talk to us about her life and career. Irene Bizahaloni teaches the Navajo language at Chinle High School. What was supposed to be only about an hour lesson, turned … Keep reading »

Ben Good-Elliott is a senior physics major. As somebody from Goshen, I am used to lots of trees. While there are plenty of corn and soy fields around, in town, there are trees blocking off large portions of the sky. Mesa Verde has plenty of large mesas to block off the horizon but at the … Keep reading »

Ben Reichenbach is a senior molecular biology major and theater minor. He wrote the following reflections from Mesa Verde. The first thing that I noticed when we entered our campsite at Mesa Verde National Park was a chorus of almost mechanical clicking sounds coming from the trees growing around our campsite. Upon further investigation to … Keep reading »

The author of this post is Levi Glick, a senior interdisciplinary major: Our first stop was at Bethel College to hear from historian and archivist, John D. Thiesen, about the earliest anthropological study of the Hopi tribe in modern day Arizona. At the archives, we learned about the life work of H. R. Voth, an anthropologist … Keep reading »

We left Goshen on the morning of June 16 with a 15 passenger bus, a mini van and a car packed with 18 students, 5 members of the Yoder Lind family and as many backpacks, sleeping bags, and suitcases along with other sundry things like tents, books and food for the journey. A fourteen hour … Keep reading »