Guatemala: Bucket List
Bucket List for Guatemala: 鉁� -Watch a volcanic eruption from our classroom window -Hike a volcano and roast marshmallows at the top (this coming weekend!) -Take a moto (motorcycle) ride around the city 鉁� -Barter down prices at the central market -Have a conversation with a stranger in Spanish 鉁� -Attend Catholic Mass (one with....
Guatemala: Privelege and contrast
Last Tuesday after classes, everyone loaded into the CASAS minivans on an unusual tourist excursion. We were not headed to the national museum, nor to the presidential mansion, but to the cemetery: a resting place for some of Guatemala鈥檚 wealthiest elite that also happens to overlook the city dump. We arrived to elaborate cast iron....
Guatemala: Daily rhythms
Last Thursday, I woke up early and stepped outside into a gorgeous, sunny, Guatemala morning. It was our first day at CASAS. After a long day of airplane rides and a late night arrival, it was refreshing to finally begin the second part of our journey. The group was surprisingly animated for a short night鈥檚....
Delhi Reflections
We landed in the capital city, Delhi, at around 1 a.m. local time on Monday morning. Half-awake and disoriented, we scrabbled to find our checked bags, hopped onto a bus, and arrived at a hostel just after 5 a.m. This put us at around 30 hours of traveling from when we left 91短视频 at noon....
Guatemala & Cuba: Two sides of our wall
鈥淭his wall is not Trump鈥檚 wall. This is our wall. This is how we as a country choose to mark our border.鈥� I know my words cannot do justice to the week we spent at the U.S./Mexico border, so I figured I might as well start with someone else鈥檚. This was said by Mark Adams,....
Israel-Palestine: the Jesus Trail and alternate narratives in the West Bank
Walking the Jesus Trail –聽聽Lindsay Acker I loved the Jesus Trail. It was really hard physically and at times I wanted nothing more than to fall over and stay down. When we sat down for lunch or at ruins, it was so hard to stand up. It was more physically draining than anything I鈥檝e ever....
ISRAEL-PALESTINE: Three Weeks in Bethlehem
Let鈥檚 talk about car horns In the US, a honking horn almost always expresses anger鈥攇et out of my way, you cut me off鈥攖hat sort of thing. Don鈥檛 get me wrong, that happens in Bethlehem as well, but a honk can mean so much more here: Warning, I鈥檓 behind you on a small street I want....
ISRAEL-PALESTINE: Desert life and reflections
Why aren鈥檛 more people using THESE alternative energy sources? Throughout our time at Kibbutz K鈥檛ura the group has listened to several lectures and participated in a variety of Kibbutz activities. Perhaps the most memorable for me was the visit to K鈥檛ura鈥檚 鈥淥ff the Grid鈥� village. As an initiative stemming from the strong emphasis on environmentalism....
ISRAEL-PALESTINE: Warm Desert Greetings
(鈥渨arm鈥� = 100掳+ degrees) Hu is He, He is She! Hello from the Negev Desert! It鈥檚 hot. Last week it was 100 degrees at 8:00pm and they told us 鈥渁 heat wave is coming鈥�. 聽It got up to 114掳 two days later鈥� a bit much for a Kansas girl. Bleary-eyed and exhausted from the first....
ISRAEL-PALESTINE: First Steps in Israel: Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Jisr Az Zarqa, Jericho
Sore Feet Saturday, September 2, 2017: Tel Aviv, Jaffa Shalom! Here we are in Tel Aviv, Israel. Our feet have carried us for 29 hours in this exotic city. My first impressions of this land: The sand is hot, the sun brilliant, the skin leather. I feel as if our foreign presence is obvious. We....