Walking through the cornfields and uneven roads of Chaquijyá Central, I am always fascinated by the foreign influences that have somehow managed to permeate the isolated Mayan village where Manna Project focuses its programs. Local children learn minimal world history, yet I teach two Julio Cesarâ[...]
Posts Tagged ‘culture blending’
Quito, Kiva, and the Delicious Results of Cross-Cultural Connectivity
Saturday afternoon I found myself bending over the kitchen table, squeezing shredded carrots into spring rolls... I have never made spring rolls from scratch before, and certainly was not expecting to when I moved to Ecuador. But let me tell you- these homemade Ecuadorian-Chinese spring rolls blow N[...]
At Some Point I Became Lorena
When I first arrived in Ecuador everyone wanted to call me Lorena, but I was very adamant about the fact that my name was LAUR-EN. Not Lorena. I felt that I was making an effort to pronounce everyone’s names correctly (I wasn’t calling JosĂ© “Joseph” just because thatR[...]
