peru
April 14, 2011
Tanzania and Peru SST returns
Almost 30 faces returned to the pool of Goshen students yesterday after a semester’s worth of traveling for Study-Service Term. Fifteen students safely returned from Tanzania and 14 returned from Peru. The Tanzania group arrived Wednesday afternoon around 3 p.m. The 7 remaining students of the group either traveled afterward or flew directly home. Tanzania 2011 was led by Ryan and Donna Sensenig with their two children, Mara and Isaac. The group spent the first six weeks of the term in the capitol, Dar es Salaam, studying Swahili and Tanzania’s culture. For the second half of the semester, students were...
January 20, 2011
Goshen students say goodbye to friends, hello to Tanzania, Peru
It was the middle of the night, but a few overhead lights illuminated smiles, tears and frantically waving hands as dozens of friends, roommates and family members bid adieu to spring SST students. A bus carried the 23 Tanzania-bound students from the Union shortly after 1 a.m. last Wednesday, Jan. 12. The spring 2011 Peru group also left the Union at around 6:30 the same morning. For many, the occasion was bittersweet. Laurel Woodward, a sophomore, acknowledged the challenging aspects of saying goodbye to close friends who left for SST. “It was harder than expected,” said Woodward, “because you form...
December 2, 2010
Peru, Egypt and Jamaica SST students arrive home safely
The size of Goshen’s on-campus student body ballooned overnight as 32 students returned safely home last evening from their fall semester of Study Service Term (SST). Around 5 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, 14 students returned from the Egypt SST unit and nine students arrived from the fall Peru unit; six students stayed behind to travel in neighboring countries. Early Thursday morning, nine students arrived home from the American Sign Language unit in Jamaica. Friends and family greeted the SSTers with excitement as they arrived on campus after spending more than three months abroad. "Coming home is surreal but I was...
September 9, 2010
Making it their own: Peru and Jamaica SST depart
Peru and Jamaica SST groups left early last Thursday morning—at 2:28 a.m. Peru’s 11 member group and Jamaica’s nine member group both arrived safely. Study-Service Term has been an integral part of the Goshen College academic experience for years. Yet excitement still filled the humid air as students anticipated the arrival in their respective destinations. “I’ve heard a lot about Peru,” said Erin Bontrager, a sophomore at Goshen. Many of Bontrager’s friends, including her brother, Jesse, a senior, have participated in Peru SST. Sitting beside her two bags, with Peruvian soles already in hand, Bontrager said, “I’m ready to experience...
April 8, 2010
SST groups return to a rainy Goshen
After over three months of living in huge cities, small villages, coastal towns, jungles, the Andes Mountains and beside the Mekong River, students on Study-Service Term (SST) from Cambodia and Peru returned to a gray and rainy Goshen on Wednesday. This was the second Goshen trip to Cambodia and the eleventh to Peru. While the Cambodia group arrived at 2:30 p.m., the Peru group’s flight was late in Lima and didn’t arrive in Goshen until much later in the day because of the missed connections that followed. Kevin Koch, assistant in the international education department, noted that the returning groups...
December 2, 2009
Tenth Peru S.S.T. group returns
Last Tuesday at 5:20 p.m., the fall Peru Study-Service Term (S.S.T.) unit returned to a crowd of eager friends and parents waiting at the south side of the Union. After three months of living in Lima, Peru’s capital city, and various villages in the Andes mountains, coastal towns and the jungle, the group of 11 students was greeted with the rather contrasting Indiana landscape upon their arrival. The group arrived almost two hours later than the original estimate of 3:30 p.m. due to a last minute change of travel plans for one member of the group. Not until the group...
September 9, 2009
The Eleven Who Flew to Peru
Tearful goodbyes have been kept to a minimum this fall, as Goshen College students only had to say farewell to one SST unit. Eleven students left for Peru on September 1st, and arrived safely later that night. This is the second SST unit lead by Jerrell Ross Richer, associate professor of economics, and his wife Jane, along with their four children Sierra, Naomi, Teresa and Jordan. The Ross-Richer family will stay to lead the next two SST units in Peru as well. According to Tom Meyers, director of International Education, everything has gone smoothly for the group thus far, aside...
April 8, 2009
Peru S.S.T. group arrives: No passport issues this time around
Nerves turned to excitement slightly past 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon as the bus carrying the spring 2009 S.S.T. group from Peru arrived home. "It's just a weird experience," said Luke Woodworth, a sophomore, as he described the group's arrival. "You get off the bus and people are yelling. I was nervous and excited all at the same time. I had lots of butterflies." According to Chase Snyder, a junior, "people were even jumping onto the side of the bus." The group started off the Study-Service Term experience a bit haphazardly when Brian Martin and Emily Miller both misplaced their...
January 14, 2009
Spring SST students settle in Peru, finally!
For the second year, Goshen College students have escaped the snowy winter months of Indiana for the summer months of Peru. On Tuesday, Jan. 6, 18 Goshen College students departed for Peru to participate in Study-Service Term, a 13-week program unique to GC in which students study in the country’s capital city for six weeks before dispersing into different locations for six weeks of service work. This is the second year Peru has been offered as a year-round program. Passport troubles seemed to plague this particular group from the moment the bus pulled out on Tuesday morning. Emily Miller, a...