On the fourth Thursday in November, some 6,300 miles from campus, the Wabash REL 290 class received a gift from their Palestinian counterparts. They got the gift of awareness. Over the course […]
Archives: November, 2016
As their journey meandered toward Jerusalem, the students on the REL 290 immersion trip to Israel today walked in the footsteps of Jesus, and traveled into the West Bank before settling in […]
HAIFA, Israel – It’s not every day one gets to walk through 15,000 years of history. Fortunately, for the REL 290 students on an immersion trip to Israel, this was the first […]
Nicholas Vedo ’19 — Life is much like the liberal arts in that it requires solving problems from a variety of angles and disciplines of thought. Before going to Peru for the […]
David Vavrinak ’19 — Out of all the activities we did in Peru, the visit to the Neurological Hospital in Lima on Aug. 8 was the most memorable for me. The day […]
Wyatt Tarter ’17 — While in Peru, I saw a massive number of dogs, or perros. When I say hundreds of dogs over the course of the trip, I am not joking; […]
Matt Hodges ’19 – It is easy to let a sense of hopelessness creep in standing between the dilapidated houses and garbage piles of Pamplona. Clean water is scarce or nonexistent, […]
Ben Geier ‘18 – During my time in Peru, I found that two conversations really helped to shape my view of the current medical situation in the country. The first of these […]
Jacob Covert ’18 – One of my greatest experiences in Peru was the amazing opportunity to shadow and be the right-hand man of a Peruvian doctor at a medical outpost in Huánuco. […]
El Presidente Kevin O’Donnell ‘19 – It was our first full day in Lima and I was still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that I was out of the […]
Samuel Hayes ‘19 – The Global Health Initiative immersion trip to Peru was an unforgettable experience to say the least. Culture shock set in as soon as we exited the airplane in […]
Chase Francoeur ‘17 — Huánuco, only 10 years ago, was a city of slightly under 75,000, but has since seen an influx that has boosted population by 230%. Combined with sup-par infrastructures, […]
