Feb. 2019 After three weeks of hotel-hopping (and bedouin camp-hopping), we’re glad to be somewhere we can really settle in: Beit Sahour. A Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Beit Sahour is south of Jerusalem and a short walk downhill from Bethlehem. Of its 15,000 people, 75% are Christians, and we’re all staying with....
Guatemala: Welcome
鈥淚 feel tall,鈥� said Maya as we were talking about what we noticed in Guatemala after a week. I couldn鈥檛 help but laugh at her comment because I couldn鈥檛 relate and I thought it was comical. I actually feel like I am an average size here in a funny way. In the United States I....
Middle East: Jordan – desert hikes, refugees, and Biblical story
Greetings friends, Since Graham left off at the Bedouin camp we have seen, heard, smelled and experienced many more new things. After leaving the camp, we as a group rode on the bus to the small village of Dana where we were to begin our adventure on the Jordan trail. The Jordan trail goes from....
Guatemala: The Border
From our first week in Xela, Guatemala and Tapachula, Mexico where we learned about migration throughout Central America into Mexico. Response to the Border From the moment we all walked up the steps that over looked the border, I was rendered speechless. I saw sand and graffiti on the buildings and walls and my interest....
Middle East: On to Jordan
Since the end of the last blog post by my friend Silas, we’ve explored Egypt further. Since Anafora, we’ve spent a lot of time traveling out and about, flying from Cairo to Luxor and spending two days there with picturesque scenery along the Nile visible right from our hotel room windows and rooftop. Our guide,....
Guatemala: the highlands
On the road yet again. We鈥檙e in the highlands, the north. As we climb higher, the trees begin to look like home. Everything else is different, but the rolling hills, the mountains, and the pine trees echo home. There is not ten feet of straight road. The car wash signs on the side of the....
Guatemala: First Impressions
A successful day of travel from 91短视频 was finished with fruit and sandwiches around 10 pm. The next morning we awoke to cool air and hot sunshine. Recorded below are our first, short impressions of Guatemala and CASAS from that first morning. Akiel: beautiful scenery Rebecca:聽 I was like 鈥渨ow鈥�. Ruth: This place is so....
Middle East: Egypt
Has it really only been a week? That’s the question that comes to mind as I write these words in Anaphora, a compound about an hour’s drive from Cairo. It’s a beautifully serene place that offers us time and space to unwind and reflect. Yes, only a week. Driving away from the farewell crowd at....
Reflections on the China Cross-Cultural
A Conversation Between Mary and Sam Why China? To be honest, I just needed to satisfy the cross-cultural requirement. I鈥檓 a transfer student, so I didn鈥檛 have a lot of options. I decided to sign up at the last minute when my advisor (Mark Sawin) told me it would be a great adventure, and I....
China: Expanding Identity
Dec. 9, 2018 I am 22 and am adopted from China – well, my mother has to remind me that I was adopted because “adopt” is a verb, not a constant state of being. I chose to go to China for my 91短视频 cross-cultural long before college, even though I had already visited there in....