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 in to Delhi over several flights on May 4th and…
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 for today was the author Virginia Woolf and her modernist…
¡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 voluntario de Mennonite Disaster Service, Roger, nos esperaban para transportarnos…
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 to transport us to the First Methodist Church in Weslaco…
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 car, we arrived in Tecpan for breakfast at a local…
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 of Virginia Woolf’s London-based novel Mrs Dalloway. This sent us…
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 different flights. We didn’t have a whole lot of time…
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 completing a scavenger hunt activity and finding lunch and dinner.
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, the “eco hotel” in the Bloomsbury neighborhood that GC has…
Augusta Nafziger is a junior writing and music double major from Weyers Cave, Virginia. Our second day in Guatemala began with a delicious breakfast (thank you Reyna and Ingrid!), followed by a guest speaker lecture by Israel Ortiz, a professor at Universidad de San Carlos. His presentation introduced us to some…
