Meet the Cusco Squad: Oliver, Leah, Roxy, Taliah, Crystal, and Luke!Crystal teaches high school English at Colegio Promesa, a Mennonite school in San Jeronimo.Crystal teaches high school English at Colegio Promesa, a Mennonite school in San Jeronimo.Crystal lives with host mom Margarita and her family.Roxy assists the English teacher in first grade at Colegio Promesa.Roxy lives next door to Crystal with host mom Frida and her extended family.Oliver and Luke volunteer with Mennonite family businesses in rural Yanamanchi.Luke and Oliver helped pick and sell a record harvest.Luke’s host mom Margarita is a peach farmer.Oliver’s host mom and dad,Flora and Guido are trout farmers.Oliver’s room is high above the trout pond.Oliver’s room is high above the trout pond.Taliah volunteers in Cusco at World Vision, where she has been translating boxes and boxes of Christmas letters to Peruvian children from their sponsors in Australia.Taliah translating letters to Peruvian children from their sponsors in Australia.Leah’s assignment is in Cusco at Colegio CEBE Don Jose de San Martin, for chidren with disabilities. She assists the teacher in a classroom of lively 4 and 5-year-olds.Leah’s assignment is in Cusco at Colegio CEBE Don Jose de San Martin, for chidren with disabilities. She assists the teacher in a classroom of lively 4 and 5-year-olds.Leah and Taliah share a pitcher of homemade chicha morada, a purple corn drink, with Rolando, Francisca and Christian, who have hosted many SSTers since the program first came to Peru.
