Welcome to my Peru blog! I’m eagerly awaiting touching down in Lima and meeting you all. A few days ago, I officially became an art history major at UBC! I spent the first two years of my degree studying neuroscience before deciding to transfer faculties last summer and have since been waiting for my transfer application to go through. I feel as though LAST 315 will not only be a rich experiential learning experience but also affirm my academic aspirations as an arts student.
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In just a few days, I will be boarding an airplane to fly to Peru and meet up with 19 other students to explore the intricacies of Indigeneity. We will explore this topic through Peruvian literature while immersing ourselves in Peru’s rich and vibrant culture. Whenever someone asked me where I wanted to travel next, […]
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Hi I’m Caroline! I am a third year in the B+MM program, AKA the Bachelor’s plus Masters of Management dual degree program. I’m majoring in history, which has been a lifelong interest of mine. I love to travel, I have travelled with my family throughout my life, and I have been independent more recently, as I spent a bulk of last summer abroad alone in Copenhagen and travelled around Europe from there. Some stuff about me is that I love to read, bake, and embroider, and I have a seven year old mini poodle named Ben (picture below).
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Hi there! My name is Adam. I’m going into my fourth year studying English literature, and am excited to be taking part in a seminar abroad for six weeks this summer in Peru, with the theme “Making and Unmaking Indigeneity in the Andes.” We will be thinking about and discussing how the notion of Indigeneity […]
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Hello, world! 🙂 I’m Niki and I’m going to Peru. I’m going as one of a group of learners, taking a global seminar course in Latin American Studies about the making and unmaking of Indigeneity in the Andes. I’ll be posting blogs about what we read and my experiences in Peru as we travel through […]
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My plane leaves Monday evening. so this is the last weekend in Vancouver before the trip. Arrangements continue… Just this afternoon, for instance, one of the museums we’ll be visiting (the Museo Larco) wrote to tell me that their charges … Continue reading →
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It’s 10:15. How much longer are we going to be here? We said we’d be back home by 10:30, but it doesn’t look like that’s the case, because there is no sign of anyone wanting to go home. How do I get out of this? My heart starts to pound and my forehead starts to […]
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In The Lettered City, Angel Rama stresses the utopian dimensions (literally) built in to the colonial cities of Latin America. For here, the plan came first, often with scant regard for the material (or human) environment. The classic grid system, … Continue reading →
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In The Lettered City, Angel Rama stresses the utopian dimensions (literally) built in to the colonial cities of Latin America. For here, the plan came first, often with scant regard for the material (or human) environment. The classic grid system, … Continue reading →
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