Author & Photographer: Masha Week Five - Alota Expert June 2019 Travel does funny things to people. Culture shock does funny things to people. They can change a person’s perspectives for better or worse, reinforcing or challenging their preconceived notions; and, they can bring out people’s strangest quirks… Travel can also bring out and create... Continue Reading →
Author - Masha Week Four - Got deet? June 2019 In the past three weeks, we have easily covered 1000 new words and completed 14 lessons. This week, we had our midterm, which went well. In addition to this, we covered several more lessons… We also had several interesting opportunities this week. On Tuesday, the... Continue Reading →
Week Three - We are all Maria June 2019 Author: Masha Photographers: Masha & Yessica This week, we continued our long days of a class. Quichua grammar, and lectures on Quichua culture in the morning, and intensive Quichua language in the afternoon. However, our awesome afternoon teacher, N., has had some trouble remembering our names.... Continue Reading →
Author: Masha Week Two - Supi Siki June 2019 On Sunday, after a brief walking tour of Quito, the group began the journey to the field school. A roughly six hour drive that turned into eight after two stops and slow hair-pin turn after hair-pin turn. Ascending into the Andes to leave Quito was stunning,... Continue Reading →
Author: Masha Week One May/June 2019 Anyone who has been following my blogs for a while knows that I like to break things up by week, for those of you new to this blog, each week of my trip I will be posting a blog post, labeled by that week. ... This week I traveled... Continue Reading →
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