Dear friends and family, After a wonderful 3 months in South America, our semester has parted ways at the international airport in Santa Cruz. Students will be arriving in the States early in the afternoon to transition to domestic travel. If you......Read More
From our students, to those who they love dearly: some thoughts on departing from our space here in Bolivia and re-integrating into an environment that may now seem foreign. In South America, I… In South America, I learned not only......Read More
If you look up the definition of progress in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster will tell you it means “forward or onward movement toward a destination”. Most people in the West would use an even stronger definition when talking about individual or......Read More
Dear friends and family, As we began our transference, we had a heartfelt ceremony commemorating the things we have learned and the people we want to become. In the second part, students read aloud what they had written, and we as instructors asked......Read More
Dear Fall 2017 Andes and Amazon Group A Semester Families, It is hard to believe that 3 months have passed since your student embarked on this incredible adventure! It won’t be long until students will be boarding their planes back home. We are......Read More
Dear friends and family, After three big days in Potosí, we have arrived in Uyuni! We’ll be out of touch for the next 3 days on the salt flats, but watch for Yaks on the mines of Potosí and Uyuni on Monday! Nov 24-26: Exploring the Salar de......Read More
Our overnight bus from La Paz to Potosi was the thirteenth bus ride over four hours on this trip and the eighth of at least nine hours. That is a lot of time on buses. By taking this form of rugged transportation, it gives you a lot of perspective......Read More
Ten Things That Made Surviving Trek Possible: Bringing two poop shovels Having two nights of mac and cheese Jeff making splints to support our knees Washing our feet to get rid of foot fungus Dancing up passes that were humungus Our guide, Percy,......Read More
Coming into camp after 8h of walking can be tough: your feet hurt, you are hungry, you are tired. you feel the marks of your heavy backpack on your shoulders. you cure your blisters, you cure your bug bites. you sweat from walking under your layers.......Read More
On the mid-morning of our fourth day of trek, Sandy posed a challenge to us: speak only Spanish for the rest of the day. We were paused right at the transition from the high, dry alpine landscape and the florid, humid, buggy Yungas, and as we stood......Read More
Dear friends and family of Andes & Amazon group A, We have arrived! After a week, we have descended from a high, snowy pass at 16,500 feet above sea level into the cloud forests and banana trees of Los Yungas at around 4,500 feet in elevation.......Read More
Durante nuestro tiempo en Tiquipaya, realice un proyecto que es uno de mis objetivos más grandes de este viaje—trabajar para entender cómo viven la gente en Perú y Bolivia. Creo que el poder de fotografía es muy fuerte, y puede......Read More
