Despedida (farewell) is an event planned by the students to thank their host families and everyone that has helped to make the study portion of Nicaragua SST a success. The Despedida was held on the evening before students left for...
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Despedida – farewell to study portion!
How earth friendly is your cup of coffee?
Our last field trip was only about 30 minutes away from Jinotepe, but in an area that felt a lot farther away. We drove through the town of Diriamba, where 7 students live, and continued past the soccer stadium where...
Masaya and Laguna de Apoyo
On June 1 we headed out on our last full-day field trip. The original plan was to visit Volcán Masaya and explore the active volcano. However, soon after the students arrived in late April, the volcano shot out some fireballs...
Bugs, Butternut Sustainable Farm, and Beans
Every day at Rieth Village is filled with a diverse mixture of fieldwork and coursework. This week we spent our time transplanting varieties of heirloom tomatoes, ground cherries, eggplants, cucumbers and sweet potatoes, just to name a few. We also...
Brianne Donaldson (2005)
Brianne Donaldson (2005 grad) has been appointed the director of the Sikh and Jain Studies Centers at Claremont Lincoln University. Brianne completed her Ph.D. at Claremont in process studies.
Annual Religion and Science Conference
Professor Gayle Woloschak, Professor of Radiology and Radiation Oncology Feinberg School of Medicine, was the 2013 speaker.
Mother's day with Moisés Gadea
Mother’s day is celebrated in Nicaragua on May 30th, but the entire month of May seems to be about celebrating motherhood. As a special tribute to our host family mothers, we had Nicaraguan singer-songwriter, Moisés Gadea perform a concert for the mothers and...
Managua – Esperanza en Accion, Batahola Norte, MCC, Jubilee House
We ended our four day field trip with 1½ days in Managua. Our first stop was Barrio Grenada, a lower class barrio where Companeros, Inc (the company that our in-country assistant Dalena works for) has been focusing their work for...
Matagalpa – land of coffee and chocolate!
Matagalpa is a beautiful northern Nicaraguan town, set among the mountains well known for being the perfect climate for growing coffee. We left Esteli on Saturday morning and drove to Vicente Padilla’s farm north of Matagalpa. Vicente runs an organic...
Esteli
At the end of May we took a 4-day field trip to the northern part of Nicaragua, specifically the towns of Esteli and Matagalpa. We focused our time in Esteli on learning more about the Contra war, and visiting a...
Service Begins
This morning the students, all 21 of them, boarded a bus for the central region of Peru to begin their six-week service assignments. Three will volunteer in Tarma, a beautiful city located in the Andean highlands, teaching in a Catholic...
Adios, Lima
We said goodbye to our Lima host families by inviting them to share an evening with us. We played games and enjoyed a program of drama, dance and song. We also shared American-style refreshments prepared with delicious Peruvian ingredients —...
The last two have arrived
We heard late this morning that Lynelle and Caleb have safely arrived on the East Coast. We dropped them off at the bus station last night where two buses were waiting to go to El Rama. One was a chicken...
And they're off!
Early this morning students arrived at Quinta Goshen eager to leave for service. It is hard to believe that six weeks have already gone by. We sent 15 students in a microbus toward Managua with Don Jose (our trusted taxi...
Much to learn about Nicaragua
The last two weeks of the study portion of SST have been filled with lectures, field trips, and Spanish classes. This post will focus on the lecture portion of these activities, with posts following later about field trips and classes....
The Bulletin – Summer 2012
Building Servant Leadership
One of longest-running piano workshops to be held, June 18-21
One of the longest-running workshops for both piano teachers and students in the United States will happen again this summer. The Goshen College Piano Workshop and Academy, being held June 18-21 in the Goshen College Music Center, will feature outstanding…
Business Leadership Program offered to the community
Business managers, future business leaders and small business owners invited to attend seminar sponsored by Center for Business and Entrepreneurial Education.
‘Four Decades of Women in Art’ exhibit opens in Hershberger Art Gallery
This summer, the Hershberger Art Gallery at Goshen College will host an exhibit by members of the Indiana Women's Caucus for Art (IWCA) called "Four Decades of Women in Art." The IWCA presents the show in honor and celebration of…
A Closer Look
As we approach the end of our study time in Lima, we deepened our perspective on what it is like to live and work here by listening to speakers who have migrated here from other places and then traveling to...
Downtown
Lima — the City of the Kings — was founded in 1535 by Francisco Pizarro. For almost three centuries it served as the political and economic hub of the Spanish Empire in western South America. In 1821 Peru gained independence...
SST is "Life Continued"
Part of the academic requirements of SST include journaling three times a week on various topics. Below is a “free choice” journal entry written by Brook, which she agreed to let us share here. One thing I’ve realized about SST...
Marine Biology 2012
Seventeen students, 2 student researchers, and 3 faculty members studied at the college's J.N. Roth Marine Biology station for 21 days over May-term, where they saw.....
Learning Food Preservation Skills
In many ways it seems as though we have just arrived, but already we are in the last two weeks of the Agroecology Summer Intensive! The past week was a whirlwind of trips, lectures and the scramble to complete our...
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