By Hillary Harder This week our travels took us to the beautiful city of Cuenca in the south of Ecuador! Because it’s a long ways from Quito, we broke up the drive and spread our travels over the whole week,…
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Welcome to Indonesia (& Philadelphia) SST 2022!
Jan 25 2022
Welcome to the Indonesia SST 2022 blog! Due to the complicated nature of travel during COVID-19, the spring 2022 Indonesia SST group is starting their semester in Philadelphia – at the Philadelphia Praise Center – to immerse themselves with the immigrant Indonesian community in the heart of Southern Philadelphia. The group is in the process or procuring passports to Indonesia, and will spend the second part of the semester in Indonesia.
We hope you follow along!
Study AbroadLiving History in Cuenca
Study AbroadMusic of the People
By Hillary Harder This week in Quito our group experienced a very different type of “guest lecture” – a musical presentation by a band called the Banda de Pueblo Urbano! The banda de pueblo is a long-standing musical tradition in…
Study AbroadMindo: Cloud forest, Carbon onset, Cascadas, and Chocolate
By Hillary Harder As we reached the end of our second full week in Ecuador, we embarked on our first group trip to the beautiful town of Mindo, located in a cloud forest about two hours northwest of Quito. On…