Blog 6: Final Travel Days As the conclusion of Ecuador Summer 2019 quickly approaches, the group is enjoying their final travel days filled with Amazon explorations, rafting the Jatunyacu River, and camping. They are soaking up all of their experiences and continuing to learn and gain perspective on their journey. Tomorrow, the group will travel […]
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Blog 6: Program Coming to a Close On Saturday evening, the students spent their last day in the homestay community. To celebrate, everyone came together with their homestay families and other members of the community for one last gathering. The students delivered speeches of gratitude to their families in Spanish and there was lots of
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Blog 2 and 3: Learning the “vinci” lifestyle. The student’s Friendship Camp has begun, and the group is getting into the groove! This blog includes two posts from the St. Vincent blog crew. [Student-written blog post begins below] Blog 2: “We started to explore our new home in St. Vincent. We traveled around two towns,
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5th Blog Post: Students share their experience living with their homestay families in Tanzania The homestay experience is the heart of the Global Routes model, and lasts for three-weeks on the Tanzania program. Students live with host families in pairs. In this blog post, each pair of students describes in their own words the mothers,
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BLOG 4: Life in the Host Community Homestay and Project The greatest highlight for many of our students is the family homestay that runs parallel to the service-learning project. You come home after a solid day’s work to smiles, curiosity, excitement, and best of all – homemade food. Students prepare dinner with their host mother,
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