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When Ethnicity Gets Soggy (From left to right) Hey I’m Irish Cortez! I’m a second year theater major – I’m April Pollock, and I’m a third-year music major -And I’m Lydia Stauffer, a second year history major! Today was our...
Today was a cool, very windy day. We started our day with lecture at 8:00am where we learned about trophic cascades. Trophic cascades can occur in the marine system when top predators are lost, often due to overfishing. The loss...
Today was full of unique opportunities and experiences for our group studying in the Rio Grande Valley. We worked at La Posada for about half of the day today, splitting up into two groups one half of us continued to...
One of the poets we’re reading for this course, Daljit Nagra, refers to the British Museum as “a fragment of varnished Britannica,” one piece of a larger ideal of Britishness. Today we explored the British Museum, marveling at its hoard...
We are so thankful for cooler temperatures up here at 7,000 feet, where the Hanifl Center lies. The Hanifl Center is the environmental learning center associated with Woodstock International Boarding School here in Mussoorie, Utterakhand, India. On Wednesday, May 11,...
My morning started off bright and early. By 5:00 a.m., two of us students were in the kitchen to help Connie, an MDS volunteer, prepare breakfast. During our time here, every student gets an opportunity to spend a day (or...
Hoy fue nuestro primer día trabajando en la Posada en San Benito, Texas. Como dice en su sitio web, la Posada “es un refugio de emergencia para hombres, mujeres y familias que huyen a los Estados Unidos debido a la...
For me London and, in general, the continent of Europe has always been known for its sense of fashion and the importance of public appearances for the citizens of all these countries. Today, I visited a shopping center called “One...
Goshen College will begin offering a 10 percent discount on tuition for six post-bachelor's programs to GC graduates
As all mornings here do, mine started out with a Pret run and a “white” Earl Gray. (It turns out that if you ask for an Earl Gray “with milk,” they’ll put the milk in a separate cup, and that’s...
Dos de las experiencias más memorables que he tenido hasta el momento en el valle del río Grande de Texas fueron tener la oportunidad de ayudar a la hermana Thérèse Cunningham con sus clases de ESL (Inglés como segunda lengua,...
Two of the most memorable experiences I have had while living in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas were having the opportunity to assist Sister Thérèse Cunningham with ESL lessons at La Posada Providencia and learning from retired public defender...
On the evening of May 6, a Friday night, fifteen Goshen College students flew into Blaise Diagne International Airport. The airport is 45 kilometers east of Dakar and some 25 kilometers from Thiès where the Goshen College Senegal program is...
Yesterday we visited the Museum of London. The museum was divided into sections based on the early times of London to the present. Despite there being many important time events in London’s history, I was more drawn to the evolution...
Today was another full day of learning and experiencing the amazing marine ecosystem. We woke up for an 8 am lecture on positive interactions in the marine system. These are important relationships where at least one organism in the relationship...
In early April, the Yoder Lind family returned to Senegal. We came early to prepare for this summer’s Goshen College semester of global engagement in the land of Teranga –a Wolof word roughly translated as hospitality but with shades of...
There was beautiful 80 degree weather this Monday morning, and we started off the day with guidelines for creating a research project at 8am. Today was more of a work day, keeping busy with creating research questions and writing a...
Today our class took a day trip to Oxford. We started by taking a bus to Oxford, England which lasted about an hour and a half long. The route was very scenic with rolling green hills, yellow fields, and farm...
Today was our first day working at La Posada in San Benito, TX. As it states on their website, La Posada “is an emergency shelter for men, women, and families who flee to the United States due to political oppression,...
Katy Thornthwaite is a music and secondary education double major from Black River, NY. Our first weekend in Guatemala started bright and early with our van leaving Semilla at 6:00 am. After about an hour and a half in the...
I am so sorry for the delay. I did attempt to post several days ago, but it looks like it never published. Our internet has been very dicey until now. So let me catch you up! Our 27 students trickled...
I would say today started like the rest of the other days, but that would have been a lie. We all got to sleep in an extra couple of hours, which, in my opinion, was very well needed. The focus...
¡Bienvenido a bordo! ¡Abróchense los cinturones y disfruten del viaje! Próxima parada: McAllen, Texas. Después de un ligero retraso en el aeropuerto de Dallas-Fort Worth, llegamos a McAllen, Texas. A nuestra llegada, el director del proyecto, Larry, junto con el...
Welcome aboard! Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride! Next stop–McAllen, Texas. After a slight delay in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, we arrived in McAllen, Texas. At our arrival,Project Director Larry, along with Mennonite Disaster Service volunteer Roger, were waiting...
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