“Reservation”
Shannon County is located in southwestern South Dakota and is the only county completely contained within the Pine Ridge Reservation for the Oglala Sioux. Natalie and I moved to the small town of Kyle in the north east of the reservation this July where Natalie will work as a 1st grade teacher in the Little … Continue reading
Profile: John Muir (The West Coast)
“Any fool can destroy trees. They (the trees) cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their hides.” – John Muir I took an ecology class in school, and so I’d heard … Continue reading
End of the semester
My classes are coming to an end. I have two finals left to take, one on Monday and one on Tuesday and I am basically spending all weekend doing nothing but studying!! I don´t mind though… I used the same approach for my midterms and ended up with A´s on both! WOOHOO!! Overall, classes were … Continue reading
…and UDEP is NOT UNH
The Universidad DE Piura (UDEP) was begun in 1969 by a member of the Opus Dei (which obviously accounts for its “holiness” in classes). Don´t take alarm at how young the university may seem, most of the universities in Peru were started around the same time, many even in the last 10 years. Perú is … Continue reading
A Migrant State of Mind 