By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Ready to dig in to a meal of fresh trout. The first Mennonite church in Peru, La Iglesia Evangelica Menonita de Lucre (Lucre Mennonite Evangelical Church), was founded in this small mountain town of a few thousand people…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Lima may be a metropolis of 10 million people, one third of Peru’s total population, but to visit Cusco is to be reminded why the Incas regarded this Andean capital as “the navel of the world.”…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 We followed in the footsteps of nearly a dozen Goshen College groups in traveling to volunteer in the community gardens managed by Señora Gregoria Flores in Villa María del Triunfo, a sandy, southern district of Lima.
Courtney with her host mother, Stally, and sister, Sofia. Though most of the time she is on the receiving end of cultural learning in Peru, Courtney wrote a journal entry about the time she called a reverse play. New England Patriots (12-4) vs. Seattle Seahawks (12-4) in…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Lea and Maria prepare Maria’s family recipe for guacamole. Coming at the end of every term of study on SST, the despedida reflects the personality and dynamics of the group of students who are saying goodbye…
Joanna with her host mother, Rosario. While studying in Lima during the first half of Study-Service Term, Joanna wrote this journal entry: What do people say about SST? It’s impossible to go on SST without hearing about it beforehand in a variety of methods and from a…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Knowing how brutish rush hour can be in Lima and knowing how far we had to drive to reach Caral, we left early on a Thursday morning — so early that when we entered the roundabout Ovalo Guttierez at…
Many Goshen students say thank you to their host families by preparing a meal or a favorite dish to share from the United States. Families are very appreciate of their efforts and may even ask a future host student if they can recreate the same dish. If they require a written recipe, however,…
On a sunny Sunday, our group spent an hour biking along Arequipa Avenue, part of the weaving stream of hundreds of walkers, runners, skaters and cyclists who have exclusive access to the roadway for a few hours every week. After renting bikes, the group prepares to ride.
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 A 10-minute walk from Casa Goshen, the home office of the SST program in Peru, we found Manos Amigas, a Christian organization that exports handicrafts on behalf of independent artists, advocating for fair prices and tracking shifts in consumer…
