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Despedida and Goodbye to Study

October 12, 2021

We had a good final week of classes, wrapping up the “study” portion of the term that makes up our Study-Service term namesake. On Friday evening the students hosted all the host families and other program partners for a despedida, a goodbye celebration. Next week we travel as a group to Tena, Baños and Guaranda before each student is dispersed to their service locations for their volunteer internships.

Final In Class Essay
Yadira giving her independent study project presentation: Voces de la Calle
Silvia and Yadira sharing about the project. Silvia was Yadira’s mentor for the project and accompanied her while traveling around the city and while collecting interviews.
Friday night despedida party with all the host families.
Lily and her host parents
The students hosted a program that included skits, singing and dance! The families loved it! Here is Daniel and Ebtihal performing their skit about the market.
Lily, Solomon and Ben performing their skit.
A salsa satire skit Daniel and Amanda were the instructors and correcting the others on proper form and steps. The skit involved bringing up an “expert” from the crowd, who happened to be Daniel’s host brother. Then it evolved into each student bringing up a family member to dance.
Amanda sharing words of appreciation, done in ecuadorian sign language with her host mom (sitting in blue blouse in the foreground) interpreting into spanish for all.
Daniel sharing words of appreciation
Lily sharing words of appreciation
Ebtihal sharing words of appreciation
Yadira sharing words of appreciation
Solomon sharing words of appreciation
Yadira with her mentor teacher Silvia