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After a couple days of very little schedule, there was a shock factor on Monday as we all realized how tightly scheduled our days would be with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). The schedule each day with MDS is identical: wake...
After our 17 hour drive we settled in for our first couple days of learning. On Friday, we took a trip to Marianna — the city we would be spending our two weeks with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). We spent...
Thursday May 6, 2021 Today’s lecture was about sponges, mainly focusing on Spheciospongia vesparium (loggerhead sponge) and Ircinia campera (vase sponge). Our morning visit was to the hard bottom sponge site. This habitat consisted of little soft sediment/sand with different...
Wednesday May 5, 2021 Wednesday morning started like the others sunny and bright. Today’s morning lecture greeted us with the challenge of creating the complex food web of the epipelagic zone only using a brief outline and an article we...
Harrison Gingerich, a senior from Canby, Oregon, is a Sustainable Food Systems major. In this post, he recounts key parts of a Zoom presentation by one of our indigenous speakers: Scott Shoemaker is a member of the Miami, a group...
Tuesday May 4, 2021 On Tuesday morning, the sun was shining and the temperature was 81 degrees. In our first class of the day we discussed seagrass ecology and biology, as well as the benefits and threats to the seagrass...
Monday, May 3, 2021 – The Bight The day began with a brief discussion on our observations and thoughts from our first snorkeling session on Sunday. Out of this conversation came the realization for the group that while there is...
Ben Zimmerman is the author of today’s blog post. Ben is a senior Sustainability Management major from Archbold, Ohio. May has finally arrived as spring is in full bloom here in Goshen. We started the week off with a leisurely...
Sunday May 2, 2021 The Marine Biology class of 9 students has arrived and 0ur course has begun! Given the challenges over the last year, it has been a long wait for our students. Last May in 2020, their trip...
Today’s post is written by Naomi Willis, a senior nursing major from Mishawaka, Indiana: We were honored to have a guest speaker, Rich Meyer, give our Indigenous Economies class some insight on the Potawatomi tribe and their land. Before we...
Today’s post is written by Haylee Pennington, a junior nursing major from Wakarusa, Indiana: Serviceberries, from the local native Amelanchier arborea, have many varieties which are all edible and insanely delicious. We were able to visit the Reith Interpretive Center...
Our first day of the May Term was spent outdoors, hiking along the Elkhart River for several miles, learning about a plant called the Serviceberry with the director of Environmental Resilience in the city of Goshen, and wondering aloud what...
In this course, students work with Mennonite Disaster Service to help a community in Florida rebuild after Hurricane Michael and reflect on ways to respond that are ethical, sustainable and respectful. They also carry out a community based research project…
We’re trying something new this year, a Cultural Perspectives course based on the Goshen College campus with the bulk of our time spent outdoors. We’ve planned a series of day trips, experiential learning opportunities and overnight camping adventures, with a...
What is “Service”. The concept of service in a North American context generally revolves around productivity. In our lead-up to service with the current Ecuador SST group, we spoke at length about what service is and is not in a...
Today is Emma’s birthday! YAY!!! On Saturday, we had the students, who are living close enough to Musoma, join Emma for some birthday cake and celebration. The cake was passion fruit-flavored (Oh My Yum!!!).
Sorry this post took a little longer than I expected. We had an interesting week dealing with electricity to our house. But, we are back!! Also, sorry this is a LONG post with LOTS of photos and a few videos. ...
If you’ve been checking the Ecuador blog for updates over the past two weeks you’ve been met with silence…. at least internet blog silence. The final two weeks of the study portion of Spring 2020 SST have been a blur...
Every Wednesday, for the past 5 weeks, instead of an afternoon field trip or lecture, the students make their way to Nyumbani Goshen, or the Goshen home (aka. the Schramms’ apartment). The students were divided into 5 different groups. Each...
As the beat of the SST drum marches on, students shifted from a focus on Ecuador’s biodiversity to Ecuador’s ethnic diversity. Depending how you subdivide it, Ecuador has 14 distinct languages and more than 30 unique people groups and subgroups. ...
Week three of Spring 2020 Ecuador SST thrust students into the biodiversity that is Ecuador and all the complexity that comes with it. One of the neat elements of SST is there is so much learning that takes place outside...
Forgive the multitude of photos in this post, but we saw so much this past weekend. We visited a town called Bagamoyo (originally Buagamoyo, which means “lay down your heart”). For the history of Bagamoyo, click here. While in Bagamoyo,...
The theme of week two of SST has been ascending and descending…. After a lecture on the history of the Catholic church in Ecuador, students visited some of the historic churches in the Centro Historico of Quito. At the national...
Today we had a much-needed day of play and fellowship. We met up at a nearby beach with some of the local youths from a few Mennonite congregations. Along with normal beach activities, such as swimming, looking for seashells, and...
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