2019-12-28
(Before we start, just know this blog was written over the course of a month.) As I think about my past 4 months in Ecuador, both a lot and a little come to mind. Part of me feels like I have been here for no time at all, knowing I will always be a foreigner....
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2019-10-26
They said October would be hard. And it has been. Just not in the way I expected. For 12 days, national protests paralyzed the entire country of Ecuador because of a new deal the president signed involving the IMF (International Monetary Fund.) I could go into specifics but you can read up on that in...
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2019-09-24
If I had to sum up all my emotions into one experience since I have been living in Ecuador with my host family, it would be as such: We had finished eating dinner and normally I would say goodnight and head upstairs but I see my host mother putting on a sweater. I assume she...
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My name is Elise Rockwell, and I am moving to Ecuador for 7 months with the program Global Citizen Year. There are plenty of things I could write about, but I am not going to write about what my future holds in the next year because you will see that for yourself (if you so...
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