The worldwide Augustana College experience
I can’t believe how short of a time we have left here in Mexico. I feel like this trip just started. My friend Nick told me a while ago that the next time we got on a plane we’d be going home. I miss my family and friends so badly, but thinking of leaving this [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2009 by taralee-morgan
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So I realize it has been literally forever since my last blog and I have a ton of stories and experiences. What I’m going to do is to write several smaller blog entries on the different experiences instead of just writing one giant blog. I think this way I can get into more detail about [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2009 by gregory-maggio
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Today was simply amazing. After classes today, our host-nietos were hanging out at the house again and we talked with them over lunch about pets and siblings (there are three of them and they look so much alike… just slightly different ages). After la comida, we played a rather intense game of Jenga before I [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2009 by elizabeth-hinds
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I think the best way to update these is the day after everything happens. So Day One went pretty well. I kind of failed at going to a Cultural site for an hour because I ended up waiting for my laundry for two and a half hours (I needed clean pants!). I did, however, visit [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2009 by elizabeth-hinds
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Ok, this is for real. I’m actually posting pictures this time. I’ve got a lot to share, so bear with me. We’ll start with Peru! all of girls in our groups on the tour of the mud city, Chan Chan.
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by elizabeth-hinds
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Hey everyone! When I woke up yesterday and spent a good two hours online before class, I had no idea there would be an upcoming challenge presented to us later that night. At our ISS meeting last night, Dr. Bertsche, along with the other professors, expressed a concern that we were becoming too comfortable in [...]
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by elizabeth-hinds
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Although I have been traveling around South America for about 7 weeks now, I still feel like this isn’t my life. It seems so surreal to be telling people back home about all my experiences. This is the kind of thing you only hear about…one of my recent captivating mind-blowing experiences was the time I [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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The past couple of weeks have been filled with lots of travel, illness, studies, and the new excitement of Mexico. We had multiple excursions in Peru, and finding a phone or internet proved very difficult, if the time to look could even be found. One of my favorite activities that we did while we were [...]
Posted on October 16th, 2009 by taralee-morgan
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Things are finally settling into a normal schedule here in beautiful Cuernavaca. We arrived in Mexico last Sunday night, and by the next morning, we had met our host families (just in time for lunch, too!) It’s been a few days now and I’ve had time to unpack and get my laundry done (Hallelujah!). There [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by elizabeth-hinds
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Last spring Dr. Bertsche said that ALL of us were going to get sick at some point in time while on this trip—foreign travel has not only risks, but some inevitability. I didn’t believe him because I rarely get sick and was convinced that I have a super-human immune system. Whelp, with my foot in [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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