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 →
UWM stands for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This piece is from WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee's NPR, it discusses World Health Day, and it is called: "UWM's Global Health Degree Is First Of Its Kind In Wisconsin" https://www.wuwm.com/post/uwms-global-health-degree-first-its-kind-wisconsin?fbclid=IwAR3H2y-lK05WMjMKDPZZbbc0UKNHJZfq0yqMhNpE4jBAlPjtoq-bOIrbO9U#stream/0 This piece discusses health challenges facing Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the U.S. as a whole. It's worth a listen for... Continue Reading →
Author: Masha. Photographer: Stephen This winter, my husband and I decided to take a staycation (stay + vacation) in Milwaukee. Milwaukee, often an afterthought to visitors in Chicago, is an underrated location. So, this winter, we decided to explore our own backyard. We visited the Mitchell Park Domes (botanical gardens), the Milwaukee Art Museum, Discovery... Continue Reading →
Photographer & author: Masha During the last twp weeks of January, Milwaukee was buried by a snowstorm and then the temperatures dropped to 20 below without the windchill, with the windchill it dropped to 50 below zero. The temperatures transformed Lake Michigan.
Author: Laura Bach, Peace Corps Education Volunteer, Uganda Laura's Blog: https://lauraabach.wixsite.com Photo taken by Masha. In Defense of Uganda: Let’s talk about the good. I recently read a Facebook post enumerating the shortcomings of African men and women from an individual who had been in Uganda for less than a month. The post shared... Continue Reading →
Photographer: Masha Summer 2018 Every year, my all of my mother's side of the family goes camping together, all 20+ of us. Almost every year we go to Kohler-Andrae State Park in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. It's a beautiful state park. Here are just a few of the birds at the park:
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