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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...
Today we had a late morning, which was a very nice change from our 8 am’s, but the sun called us to be up at 7am to watch the sunrise anyway. At 10am we attended the Layton Baptist church and...
Welcome to Quito! We are so pleased and honored to welcome 21 new students to this beautiful country of Ecuador. And welcome to you, who may be following along and supporting our journey from afar. After picking up students from...
We had a slow but productive morning after Friday’s excitement; we started off by learning about sponges and mangroves and their unique places in the marine ecosystem. There are three species of mangrove in our area, and the red mangrove...
We had many adventures on Friday! In the morning we discussed the marine creatures found in the epipelagic, the surface waters of the open ocean. Microscopic phytoplankton and zooplankton are found in the epipelagic, in addition to easily visible creatures...
It was a balmy and beautiful Thursday. Before we left for class, Annalise spotted a large cowrie about 6 inches long. Other organisms we’ve observed at our resort are nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum), spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus), and hermit crabs...
We kicked off the day at 8:30am by having our usual class meeting in the basement of the St. Athans Hotel, discussing the ending of our novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith. We also read through the first couple pages...
Sorry for the delay! Wi-Fi access and time to dedicate to blogging haven’t quite matched up. Nevertheless, we have had a great start to our time here in India. Over the first 30+ hours, our 27 students trickled in on...
I think we all surprise ourselves at how awake we are for our first full day in London! Most of us powered through the exhaustion the day before and took the chance to explore the city and orient ourselves while...
Eleven students arrived on Tuesday after a long day of travel. We left Miami airport at 7pm and arrived in Layton at the Fiesta Key RV resort at 9pm. We will stay at this resort while exciting renovations are completed...
All twenty London students arrived safe and sound (if a bit sleepy) yesterday morning around 8:30am British Summer Time. I (Peter) met them at the airport, and we took a bus into city center. Our lodgings are at St Athans,...
We wrapped up our semester with a weekend full of reflections, discussions, relaxing and fun at El Refugio where we had the decompression and processing time we needed to close out our time together here in Ecuador. Thanks to those...
There are only a few kaki lima, or street food stands, near the campus of Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA) where I am located for my service assignment, and outside my neighborhood along the busy coastal road the little mobile stalls...
These photos are from a short adventure I had about a week and a half ago with one of the friends I have made here, Titan, and one of the teachers at the university that has been helping me navigate...
During the service portion of SST, I have been volunteering at a foundation called Su Cambio Por El Cambio (SCXC) in a little town called San Simon. SCXC’s primary missions are to provide a safe after school environment for local...
In January, I took a 3-day trip with my host family in Quito, Paola (host-mom) and Sammy (host-sister). It took 2.5 hours to get to Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas. We took the Cordillera de Los Andes road. This very...
Before we left for SST, we were told to prepare some gifts for our host family. The suggestion we got was to prepare some things from Goshen or our College. But at that time the bookstore was already closed. I...
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