Over the weekend, we had our final group trip/exploration to Rabbit Island off the southwestern coast of Cambodia. It was a 3 1/2-hour trek by bus, so we breakfasted at the Royal University of Phnom Penh before heading out on...
Trip to Kep and Rabbit Island
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Trip to Kep and Rabbit Island
Convocation: Documentary Photographer Terry Evans
Evans is an award-winning documentary photographer based in Chicago. She is serving as this year’s Eric Yake Kenagy memorial art lecturer. Click for audio file
Terry Evans, Chicago photographer, offers 2010 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist lecture
Evans has worked with aerial and ground photography to capture the prairies and plains of North America. More recently, she has explored the steel industry and working steel mills, as well as using photographs of the Greenland ice sheet to…
Water
What do people living on the margins south of Lima need more than anything else? There are many answers to this question, but the one that first came to mind for Corpusa is something basic and essential: water. Chavin de...
Arts of the Informal Economy
We have developed a series of workshops this semester focused on how artists and artisans — dancers, musicians, cooks and others with particular talents — support themselves. We began with a workshop on dance by a long-time friend of the...
Chapel: A Summer of Camping Inquiry – 2009 student CIP participants
The 2009 Camping Inquiry Program participants will lead our chapel service this morning sharing faith stories, fun songs, and other interesting tidbits about their ventures. Also on hand will be a number of Mennonite camp directors encouraging you to explore...
BONUS Convocation: “Different Shades, One People: African-American Experiences @ GC”
Emcee – Nate West Jr. History of African-American students at GC – Dominique Burgunder-Johnson (’06)Personal Story – Arvis Dawson (’76) Personal Story – Anne Berry (’99)Closing – Nate West, Jeremy Pope, and Carl SteenThis event will kick-off the release of...
Goshen College announces Fall 2009-10 Dean’s List
Goshen College recently recognized 226 students, for excellence in academics, on the 2009-10 fall semester Dean's List.
Adventure to Kampong Phluck
Among the most memorable parts of the Siem Reap field trip was Saturday’s grand adventure to Kampong Phluck, a village built on 20-foot stilts right along the Tonle Sap. Two students — most likely Julian and Annalisa — will do...
Visiting Angkor Wat
One of the highlights of the SST Cambodia experience is visiting the ancient temples of the Angkor Wat temple complex, the subject of much academic study and the backdrop for many Hollywood Films (e.g., “Lara Craft: Tomb Raider” and “Two...
Skuon and Siem Reap
Given the zestiness of the Siem Reap field trip, we’ll post three different blogs about that experience. This first blog includes photos of Skuon, the spider village where we stopped on the way to Siem Reap; images from lounging at...
Day-to-Day Life in Phnom Penh
This is the first of four blogs we’ll post in the next 24 hours, so please watch for additional updates related to our weekend trip to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat. Some of the photos here are from before and...
Terry Evans
Terry Evans Chicago artist photographer Terry Evans is the Goshen College Art Department’s 2010 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist, and will offer a public lecture, “Now and Then,” in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall on Sunday, Feb. 7 at...
Convocation: “Pornography: So What’s the Big Deal?”
Sponsored by the Campus Health And Wellness (CHAW) Committee. A .pdf file of Sheldon Swartz’s talk is available from Char Hochstetler, upon request. Click for audio file
Winter One Acts 2010
The next production in the GC Theater Department's "Think For Yourself" season 2009-2010 features five short One Act plays.
Green Hills, Healthy Children
We traveled an hour south of Lima and found ourselves in another world. Before our adventure we asked the students two questions: (1) Are you ready for a hike? and (2) Have you ever spent the night in an orphanage?...
Chapel: “Wade in the Water: Singing the Spirituals” -a music-centered chapel service
Our chapel this morning will be a music-centered chapel on the theme “Wade in the Water: Singing the Spirituals.” Click for audio file
Goshen College students speak for peace in annual oratorical contest, Feb. 9
Seven Goshen College students will speak Tuesday, Feb. 9 about issues of peace and justice for the annual C. Henry Smith Oratorical Contest.
Change of Plans
We appreciate your patience waiting for our blog to be restored. While the folks at Goshen College were dealing with the technical issues required to re-build the blog, the folks in the mountains of Peru are dealing with the heaviest...
Khmer Rouge Week
This is the fifth of five catch-up blogs, and the last blog we will post until next week. We leave for Siem Reap and Angkor Wat Thursday morning, so early next week we’ll report on that major field trip. Between...
P’teah Goshen Night, Afternoon Lectures
This is the fourth of five catch-up posts after the crash of the GC website two weeks ago. One more yet to come this evening. Our second full week in Cambodia included lectures by David Ketchum of Mennonite Central Committee...
Biking the City, Visiting Sovanna Phum
This is the third of four SST Cambodia catch-up blogs following the crash of the GC website two weeks ago. One more will come Tuesday evening (in Indiana). One week after students arrived in Cambodia, we purchased a first round...
First Lectures, Museum and Palace Field Trip
This is the second of four new blog entries (being posted over a 24-hour period), catching up chronologically with the intial days of the SST Cambodia group. On Tuesday of their first week in the country, students enjoyed a field...
Back Online: Settling into the Phnom Penh Routine
After being offline for more than two weeks, the SST Cambodia is back online now. We’ll be posting several posts within the next 24 hours, so feel free to keep checking back in. We’ll post these chronologically, beginning with photos...
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