The worldwide Augustana College experience
My Ecuadorian host family taught me a great deal about the meaning of family from the perspective of another culture. My experience not only altered my view of Ecuadorian culture, but it also gave me a new perspective on what family is to people of the United States.
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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Holy cow, it’s been too long since my last post! I’ve been so caught up in the stress of finals and papers, and in the excitement of our travels in Perú, that I haven’t had much time for posting. Let me get you caught up to date with a few posts to make up for [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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As I was walking down the street the other day I was greeted by several signs advertising everything from restaurants to dentistry, but all of the ads had something in common: There were an unusual amount of European looking faces smiling back at me trying to entice me to buy into whatever they were selling. [...]
Posted on October 8th, 2009 by elizabeth-hinds
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So a lot has happened since my last post, and to be honest I don’t want to write a 10 page blog on this one, so I’m just going to start from the time we entered Peru! We left Ecuador and my family for the past 3 weeks on August 21 and entered into the [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2009 by gregory-maggio
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I know this is very late, but I promise I’ll talk about Peru soon! For now, a quick update about leaving Ecuador… What I’ll miss most. 1.The language
Posted on October 3rd, 2009 by elizabeth-hinds
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Traveling has made blogging difficult this past week, but saying goodbye to Ecuador was a million times harder. Rachel and I decided for our farewell gift of sorts, we would cook our family dinner during the last week. We chose to make lasagna, one of my personal favorites, and apple pie accompanied by ice cream. [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by taralee-morgan
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As our time in Cuenca nears its end, I’m finding that I’m getting really stressed out about the end of our “term” My Spanish final promises to be a doozy and I might be a little over my head with my tapestry design for my art class. I could be writing my paper for Spanish [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2009 by elizabeth-hinds
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Hello again. Sorry to everyone that tried to read this the first time and could not. I have been having quite a few problems with my blogging account (including not being able to upload pictures), but hopefully there will be no more major problems with it. I am going to try and write this post [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2009 by gregory-maggio
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Another week has past, yet my tapestry for art class has only grown about half an inch… When are those due again? Last weekend I had planned on getting at least half way done on the way to Saraguro, however, sleep, of course, overcame me. I had my first mountain hiking experience in Saraguro and wow [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2009 by taralee-morgan
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Top 10 Things I Miss About Living in the United States 10. American football: Some of my friends went to a sports bar to try and watch the Bears play the Packers, but the game wasn’t on any of the channels. I’m sort of glad I didn’t see it, though, because it sounded painful for [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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