Day 9: Inside Global Trade

Our last day of English tutoring created an exciting, yet emotional environment at the school. We created special bonds with our students and sad to see them off, but finished off our tutoring block with an intense game of soccer with the students. After a brief stop...


Day 7: Visiting an Indigenous Community

Today, we started with our second day of English tutoring which overall ran much more smoothly due to lessons we learned from yesterday’s experience. After teaching, we headed to Guamote with the purpose of visiting an indigenous community. Since our theme was working...

Day 6: Teaching and Learning in Riobamba

On our sixth day in Riobamba, we experienced various activities with the focus of education in mind. For the past few days, our delegation has been working extremely hard coming up with English lesson plans. Each person in the delegation was split into pairs or trios...

Day 5: Culture and Indigenous Worldviews

The focus of today was experiencing various indigenous practices and foods, specifically from the Puhara, which are a independent, indigenous people in the Chimborazo province of Ecuador. We took a bus ride to Pucara Tambo, which is a ceremonial center for the Puhara....