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Southward bound - Kate Levy

I'm a soon to be college graduate spending a semester in Cuzco, Peru studying Spanish, politics, history and international development as well as doing volunteer projects through ProWorld, Peru.
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By Southward bound
October 24th 2009
In hot water. South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
Camping
Camping
Setting up camp at Santa Teresa.
It's been a long time since I last wrote but I'm glad you're still around to read all about my adventures! There seems to be a bit of an issue with blogging. When I'm off doing lots of stuff that you might want to hear about, I don't have time to write about it but then when I'm just hanging around at home I have all the time in the world to tell you about all of the nothing that I'm up to. Well, as you might have guessed it have been an eventful last month so lets get started. Three [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 24th 2009 | 24 Views | [diary=447880]

On our way to town
Juan and Kyle.
Bug bites

I know this probably isn't what you want to hear but things here have been pretty quiet. Classes have continued on with my feelings about them remaining aprox the same. The family I'm living with has continued to be wonderful to me. One of the only things that I can think to say has changed has been by relationship with the other students. As will always happen in the group of 12 people, I have begun to find that there are certain people I'm much more compatible with than others. Lucky for me there are a couple people on the trip [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 26th 2009 | 28 Views | [diary=439972]

Caitlyn's Cam 173
The view over Cusco
Caitlyn and I

By Southward bound
September 11th 2009
Moray and Salt Mines South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
This is just a quick post so that I can put up some pictures of Moray. It's a really cool Incan ruin in the Sacred Valley. Just a little info on it. There are three circle different sites at Moray. Only one of them is fully reconstructed. For a long time people didn't know what they were used for and speculated that they were containing or channeling energies. The thinking being that you would sit at the bottom and you could "go to other dimensions." Later they notices that they were only finding different seed types on each level with different [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 11th 2009 | 26 Views | [diary=435558]

Group Shot
Steep Stairs
Meditating in a Lab

By Southward bound
September 5th 2009
One week in South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
Tourism Parade
Tourism Parade
I just though this guy was cool.
I have to keep reminding myself that I've only been here a week. It's odd because there are times when I feel like I've been here forever and other times when I'm still overwhelmed by the newness of this whole experience. Classes started this week. I'm taking 6 credits of Spanish, then 3 credits of Community Development, 3 of Latin American Politics and 3 of Art and Art History of Peru. All of them are being taught in Spanish so I'm a little bit nervous about that but so far they seem good. The professors have been going slow because there [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 5th 2009 | 20 Views | [diary=434137]

Colors of Cuzco
Stilts
Traditional

By Southward bound
August 29th 2009
Arriving in Cuzco South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco
Today is only my second day in Cuzco and I already love it! The city has about half a million people, from what I heard from my taxi driver in Lima. Seems like a good size and it feels that way. From what I can tell so far there is lots to do here but nothing is too far away. I spent yesterday hanging out with the three other student who arrived early. There was Kelly from the Oregon, Kyle from Cali and Lynsey, also from Cali. Spanish was of course our first topic of conversation. Who had taken what classes, [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 29th 2009 | 21 Views | [diary=432114]