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2024 Summer SST Ecuador Just Started!

May 03 2024

Our Summer SST Ecuador group arrived this May 1. We are all very excited to start this new term! Bienvenidos a Casa, chicos!

One of the first actives of orientation was a group discussion about expectations, hopes, and how to approach challenges. After that, we visited La Carolina, a popular park near Casa Goshen. Then we headed to Museo de la Ciudad, a space that used to be a convent, then a hospital and now houses collections of pre-Inca, Inca, pre-Colonial, Colonial, and contemporary art pieces and other artifacts that tells the rich and diverse history of Ecuador.

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