Goshen College
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Summer 2011
Our most recent service trip took us to the rural village of Quebrada Verde, about a 70-minute drive south from Lima. There we spent a day and…
- getting ready for musical chairs
- now the big kids get to play
- the last two standing
- round 2 of musical chairs
- a contensted finish
- preparing worksheets for students
- a nearby church
- after service, a short walk around the neighborhood
- sleeping quarters for the night
- saying goodbye
On Thursday a 70-minute bus ride delivered us from the concrete and noise of Lima to the small, rural village of Quebrada Verde in the coastal mountains…
- the descent
We were able to enjoy two uniquely Peruvian cultural delights this week: the cajón and cebiche. Drummer extraordinaire Camilo Ballumbrosio introduced us to the cajón during a…
- Camilo introduces us to the cajón
- ready to cook!
- Sara preps for Papas a la Huancaina
- Celia introduces Glicerio
- the fish
- proper cutting technique
- how cebiche should look
- preparing cebiche
This semester our meeting place is the Anglican Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in the Miraflores district of Lima. In a city with so much noise, we…
- Moises, Irene, and Anita
- Moises’ class
- Irene’s class
- Anita’s class
- the door to class
- Two classes upstairs, one class downstairs
- The entrance to the large room where we have lectures and workshops
We spent Thursday and Friday getting to know the district of Villa Maria on Lima’s sprawling, populous “South Side,” which is known as the city’s cono sur…
- Playing fútbol in Villa Maria
- after the game
- cooking anticuchos
- mazamorra
- some of our hosts for the weekend
- at the fish market
- Alicia & the octopus
- the entrance to the fish market
- sharpening knives on the street
- a stowaway from the fish market
We spent Thursday and Friday in Villa Maria del Triunfo, a district on the southern edge of Lima in what is called the “Southern Cone.” (Lima also…
- With Senora Gregoria, biohuerto supervisor
- entrance to the garden
- beyond the garden wall
- ready to work
- planting lettuce
- delivering fertilizer
- refreshments!
- The sign says “No dumping”
- picking up trash
- exploded maracuya
- harvesting potatoes
- bumper crop!
- harvesting camotes (sweet potatoes)
- washing potatoes
- the pile of trash removed from the garden
More than 8.5 million people call Lima home. To get a better sense of this huge, sprawling city, we headed to central Lima. Our first stop was…
- on the bus
- atop Cerro San Cristobal, a pilgrimage site and impressive overlook
- In a courtyard at Santo Domingo monastery
- a spontaneous concert by school children preparing for a Mass
- In the chapter room–the original meeting place of the oldest university in the Americas
- the library
- outside Lima’s original post office
- in the Plaza de Armas
- the government palace (Peru’s White House)
- the cathedral
- entering Barrio Chino
- at the Chifa restaurant
- studying maps of the city
The students spent their first full day in Peru getting their “Lima legs”—they walked the mile and a half from their hostel to Goshen Tambo, the directors’…
- outside the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, our meeting place
- Peruvian fruits
- at Goshen Tambo
- Alicia serves maracuya
- granadilla (back) and pacay (foreground)
- pacay
- aguaymanto
- trying granadilla
- outside Goshen Tambo
- walking through the market
- SSTers at the Pacific Ocean
- playing games at the park
- one of Lima’s many parapenters glides overhead
- heading down to the shore
- the route back up
- on the way down to the beach
- the hike back up!
- dinner at Comunidad Reto
- Pastor Jose Manuel welcomes us
We’ve had a busy few days! We’ll be posting more updates and many photos soon, but here are pictures of the SSTers and some of their Lima…
The Peru SST group made it to Lima a little after 9:30 this evening. All is well and we’re looking forward to starting our orientation bright and…
- At Lima’s Jorge Chavez International Airport
- the three who arrived early enjoy coffee while waiting
- on the bus
