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…
In anticipation of our visit to Caral, an archaeological site that represents the oldest city in the Americas, dating to about 2600 B.C., we visited a museum that uses pottery and other artifacts to tell the history of several leading cultures of Peru over more than 5,000 years.
Our tour of downtown Lima began in an early colonial monastery, Convento de San Francisco, known for its religious art above ground and its history below ground. Convento y Iglesia de San Francisco in central Lima. We admired the courtyard, the wood carvings, and the paintings, including…
Given their late arrival on Wednesday, well past midnight, students appreciated having the orientation start pushed back by an hour to 10 a.m. on Thursday, their first full day in Lima. We began with a brisk walk from the hostel, Albergue Miraflores House, to Casa Goshen, a fourth-floor, walk-up apartment…
Goshen students met their host families on Friday after a summer day spent touring downtown Lima. With schools closed for vacation and traffic lighter than normal, we made especially good time on the return trip. So good, in fact, that we stopped for ice cream (the flavors chosen included sauco…
