Category Archives: Student Blog Post

Prior to my arrival in Chile, I had many preconceived notions that shaped what I believed would characterize this new adventure. While some [...]

As I entered this country I came with more knowledge and experience about people who are homeless then I knew before.  My eyes were so fami [...]

People speak of culture shock as if it’s a necessity of traveling. To me, it’s one of the main points of traveling, to get out o [...]

As a student of medicine and the natural world, it is not particularly difficult to see shortcomings of the medical systems in Chile. When o [...]

I walked into Escuela de Uruguay with a feeling of uncertainty, armed with a small arsenal consisting of an Ipad and little in the way of Sp [...]

On Friday, June 6th, a group of St. Edward’s students and I visited the Escuela Uruguay for young girls in Valparaiso, Chile. We arrived [...]

Look at this place. Grand isn’t it? It’s the kind of building that is so big that if you stood inches away from it and looked up, the ro [...]

Unknowing of what we were about to witness, our group departed the I.S.A. office for a walk up the hills of Valparaiso. As two dogs accompan [...]

On June, 3, 2014, our Capstone in Chile group toured the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (human rights museum) in Santiago, Chile [...]

Walking around the streets of Chile, whether in the hills of Valparaiso or the noisy city of Santiago, visitors cannot help but notice the l [...]