Seven of 15 students will have birthdays while in Peru during the Study-Service Term for Spring 2014. Since we will be taking a field trip Friday, we celebrated the first of those birthdays a day early. Malaina is the happy but uncomfortable center of attention as her…
Goshen College students participated in a truly interactive workshop last week by trying out a versatile musical instrument and a unique form of dance while also learning about the history and culture of Afro-Peruvians. Their teacher was Camilo Ballumbrosio, a phenomenal Afro-Peruvian percussionist known throughout Peru and among world music…
Goshen College students got a crash course in the history of Lima on Friday by touring the historic downtown district, better known as “El Centro de Lima.” The students got a top to bottom tour of the City of Kings – so named by its founder, the Spanish conquistador Francisco…
When the Goshen College students arrived in Lima and emerged from the airport about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, they were greeted with exceedingly rare summertime raindrops. It almost never rains in Lima, where the average yearly rainfall is less than 2 inches (and what moisture accumulates comes mostly from fog). Friday…
Goshen students met their Lima host families Friday after a full day of orientation, an enjoyable tour of downtown and two nights in the Miraflores House (a hostel). The students prepared for the important meetings by reviewing information about their families, including the locations of their homes, and studying (and…
They are here – tired, excited and somewhat overwhelmed. United Airlines Flight 1095 arrived safely and early from Newark, N.J.; it touched down at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima at 10:02 p.m. Wednesday night (Jan. 8). The students were delayed in customs and immigration because the luggage of two…
Host parents for the Peru Study-Service Term students met Monday night with SST Co-Directors Richard R. Aguirre and Judy Weaver and SST Lima Study Coordinator Celia Vasquez. The meeting at the Anglican Cathedral of the Good Shepherd (Buen Pastor) was designed to give the parents an overview of the Spring…
Welcome to the Peru Study-Service Term blog for Spring 2014! Goshen College students are scheduled to arrive late Wednesday (Jan. 8), which is when the spring program officially will begin. We (co-leaders Richard R. Aguirre and Judy Weaver) have been preparing the study-service program since even before our last group…
The seven students who made up the Peru Study-Service Term unit for Fall 2013-2014 hailed from Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Oregon. Their majors included biochemistry, communication, mathematics, nursing, physics, sociology and Spanish and they had a wide range of interests. They left Goshen on Sept. 5, during the…
Members of Goshen College’s Peru Study-Service Term unit for Fall 2013 arrived back in Goshen Monday afternoon and enjoyed a joyous welcome from family friends and members of the college community. Becca Augsburger, Alan Leichty, Rudy Litwiller, Joshua Schlabach, Landon Slabaugh and Lauren Weaver arrived at the Newcomer Center by…
