Hi everyone! So my time in Peru is coming to a close, and I thought i would write one last time. Mind you, I also have a delay in the airport to wait through, so this conveniently gives me something to do, so thanks! The last week and a half or so have been alright. It has been really good to be back with all the other students - since we all went our separate ways, I hadn't seen some students in a month - for presentations and turning in our papers and just ...

Hello everyone! I am finishing up my time here in Cusco and in Peru and thought it was about time for another update... The past few weeks have been fun, eventful, and very good for me. My independent research project has started since the last time I updated on here and I have really been enjoying working on my project which is about bilingual education in the Peruvian Amazon region (mostly the southern Amazon). The first week or so of the project, I was mos...

Hello everyone! It's been a while, and I definitely have some things to say, stories to tell, etc. I guess I will start with the fact that classes are completely over for me now, and we have the next week-ish to get ready to turn in our proposals for independent investigations - I have already started my investigation, etc. so I'm a bit ahead of other folks, which feels really good... I am sure that a lot of people are going to be really stressed out Tuesday nig...

Happy St. Paddy's Day!!!! Here's to Lael Raymer! Here's to green beer and bagpipes and much more! I will definitely miss being in the states later this evening when we go out as a group to sing karaoke with our Spanish professors (I don't really get what Spanish class has to do with karaoke but I'm going to do my best to get some green food dye to have a green beer tonight!)... As far as classes and things go, I have been in daily Spanish class since late last w...

Hello everyone! Today I am lucky enough to write you from the beautiful, sunny Lima! We got here two nights ago and have had 3 seminars since and some time to explore. Yesterday, we suffered a little through two back to back seminars... and for the record NOT A SINGLE person my age has that long of an attention span... In fact, I'm not sure that ANYONE has that long of an attention span. The second seminar I found much more interesting than the first, but m...