Overseas program(s):
Ecuador Spring 2016
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Religion, Sincretismo - Sincretismo Nuestro tema esta vez es sincretismo, y he pasado un rato pensando en este. Al principio, mis pensamientos sobre religión: Entiendo que la religión, cual es importante para mí en termos espirituales, es esencial en sincretismo. Entonces, para mí el sincretismo es primer un sentido que me pongo cuando entro un espacio católico—es un […]
On paying someone to carry your groceries for you - I fancy that I am not ethnocentric at all—although I certainly make comparisons from others cultures to my own, I don’t think of myself as making judgements. And after living in a couple different cultures and really trying to understand them (to the best of my ability in the time I was there), I don’t […]
culture shock? - When I was abroad last semester, one of the first things in orientation we did is look over a diagram similar to this: about culture and reverse culture shock. I was pretty sure that I’d be immune to it, but sure enough after a couple weeks I found myself getting frustrated that I didn’t know […]
La primera semana - I’ve officially been here in Ecuador for a week now (It had been when I started writing this, anyways), and I left Colorado with the intention of keeping a blog, so here’s a step in that direction! For now, run-down (of varying brevity) of the days of my first week: Sunday, Jan 9th: I arrive in […]
Pre-Ecuador Thoughts - Here are some of my various thoughts, in no real coherent order… I’m sitting in my flat in Budapest and trying to anticipate my semester in Cuenca that’ll start in less than two months (!). One thing I’d determined before deciding to do spend two semesters in a row abroad is that I’d try not […]