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¡Hola a todos! Today we spent the entire day with the tejedoras, or weavers. We worked with the becadas to collect footage for a mini documentary about each of our weavers, which will be [...]

To all the parents and friends back at home who are wondering about how the terrorist attack yesterday on Charlie Hebdo has affected our trip, we’d like to begin by saying that we are all [...]

January 8th, 2015 Today, we all woke up either because of the bitter cold or because of the crowing roosters and barking dogs. We all ate a hearty breakfast – many included eggs and fried dough. [...]

Bonjour! 🙂 This morning, most of the group got up early for a morning walk to Notre Dame and a yummy French pastry breakfast. We were able to walk through the church and spend time looking inside [...]

January 6th & 7th, 2015 Hi all!  So sorry we did not get a chance to blog yesterday—we were traveling for most of the day!  We left Shanghai early in the morning and arrived in Lijang around [...]

Last night, the Guate crew had the pleasure of joining Lencho’s family for dinner at his home. His sister, niece, nephews, cats, and dogs hosted us for a delicious meal, complete with salsas, [...]

Tonight as I write to you, some of us are watching French news before bedtime — we think of it as training for the brain exercise we get during the day; the people we have been speaking [...]

Bonjour à tous! Our third day in France started nice and early at 8:45 am when we left the bustling city  and travelled on the RER to Bondy Blog in Bondy, a banlieue on the outskirts of Paris. We [...]

There may be a reason white girls my age don’t wear kurtas back home but at the moment I can’t think of one because I look #stylin. This is how the day begins– with knee length [...]