Monday, January 23 The teacher explains to the students how to make a Shipibo design. In the center of very urban Lima we visited Cantagallo, a tiny part of the Amazon jungle that lives in the hearts of a few hundred indigenous Shipibo people from the far…
Friday, January 20 Mighty Meghan gets a small souvenir to take back to Goshen. Today we drove 25 miles north to Puente Piedra, an area more typical of where most people live in this sprawling capital city of 10 million. The outer regions of Lima, known as…
Monday and Tuesday, January 16-17 Gabby gets the low-down on vegetable prices. The rapid changes of the first 4 days in Peru is giving way this week to the routines that will take them through the next 5 weeks. One of those routines is learning how to…
Friday, January 13 Our tour guide in the Santo Domingo church and convent. Today the students became familiar with Lima’s historic center, once the very center of the Spanish empire in South America. To learn more about the Catholic tradition in Peru we visited the Santo Domingo…
Thursday, January 12 After sleeping in from their late night arrival, Doug picked up the students for a 15-minute walk to Casa Goshen, the SST house where Maria and Doug live and have their office. After some introductions and a reflection on SST as a pilgrimage, we took…
The flight with all 14 of the students arrived on time last night at 12:30 a.m., although it wasn’t until almost 2:00 a.m. that we were all ready to leave the airport for a late-night drive through Lima. By 3 a.m. all the students were tucked into their beds at a…
The before (Sept. 2) and after (Nov. 29) pictures at the airport can’t begin to portray all that the students experienced, nor how they grew and changed. Doug and Maria just said goodbye to the students at the Lima airport, as we sent them on their journey…
November 27, Sunday We are all on retreat outside Lima until we leave for the airport tomorrow night. The students have been giving presentations on their projects and service assignments, with a worship service this morning and free time for fellowship scattered throughout the day. Everyone has marveled…
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 24-25 A group hug for Achieng’s birthday. All the students have safely returned from their service assignments back to Casa Goshen in Lima. Each group warmly welcomed the other groups, with many accumulated stories of trials and tribulations being shared. Although Thanksgiving was…
Katie in the kitchen with her host mother. Day 1: We went to English classes with our brothers at 8 a.m. Class started at 9:30. Every student practiced greeting us in English. Then we went to play futbolito (traumatic flashbacks to Caral). Then we went to the…
