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By Alexa Boyce For those of you who may not know, a Mosque is an Islamic place of worship. English-speakers use the word as a general term, but Muslims actually differentiate between small, privately owned Mosques (Masjid) and larger community Mosques (Masjid jami). While mosques started as small open-air places of prayer, today they are… Read more »

By Robin Fillner – SALUD Program Guest blogger traveling in Quito. Wow – the bus today was really intense (this is my weekly bus report!) today was Ecuador vs. Costa Rica in the world cup match. And because there is no school and no work, I thought it would be less crowded. But no, it… Read more »

By Jeremy Carter – Guest blogger traveling in Merida, Mexico. Greetings from Mérida! Even after being here for 24 hours, that still sounds odd, as it's hard to believe I'm spending a month in one of my favorite cities. Every part of this trip has been perfect so far, from the flight to the homestay… Read more »

By Robin Fillner – SALUD Program Guest blogger traveling in Quito. Next, we went to a nearby town where the celebration of Inti Rayme was in full swing. The indigenous people celebrate their own version of the summer solstice with drinking Canela – a fermented lemony, sugary alcohol. They drink for a whole week nonstop!… Read more »

By Robin Fillner – SALUD Program Guest blogger traveling in Quito. Next, we went to a nearby town where the celebration of Inti Rayme was in full swing. The indigenous people celebrate their own version of the summer solstice with drinking Canela – a fermented lemony, sugary alcohol. They drink for a whole week nonstop!… Read more »

By Kayla Allen One of the many reasons Costa Rica continues to grow in popularity is the fact that at the end of its last civil war Costa Rica abolished its own military. Central America, which is so rich and diverse with both culture and breathtaking landscapes, has been plagued with civil unrest and not… Read more »

By Robin Fillner – SALUD Program Guest blogger traveling in Quito. I can't really figure this keyboard out very well. In Espanol they don't use very many apostrophes and I would have to push some alts and controls and some numbers to get to it… So I apologize for the mist punctuation. This weekend was… Read more »

in Montevideo.. Last Entry By Lawrence Selby – Guest blogger traveling in Montevideo. My host parents in Montevideo, Ana and Ricardo, keep a small scrapbook with notes, pictures and postcards from all their student guests (children). It's customary for each student that stays with them to write a small note in the scrapbook before they… Read more »

By Lawrence Selby – Guest blogger traveling in Montevideo. I've settled into an evening ritual with my host parents. When I'm not out during the evening, we all watch television together. At 8 pm, we watch the news and at 9 pm there's an Argentinean soap opera on. Then, twice a week at 10 pm,… Read more »

By Jim Kane – Guest Blogger. I'm getting excited to head back to Peru in just a couple more weeks. One of my favorite folkloric festivals in all of South America takes place each July in the small town of Paucartambo, about 3 1/2 hours outside of Cusco. It's called the Virgen del Carmen festival… Read more »