Hi Mounties! Welcome back to another #MountMartes blog post. Today, April 7th, 2020, is officially the 2-week mark of all Cuenca study abroad students coming home due to the coronavirus. Since we are officially through the 14-day quarantine in our homes, I thought it would be interesting to explain the […]
Cuenca 2020
#HolyThursday Comes Home
Hello again! It has certainly been a whirlwind week for the group in Cuenca. We left Cuenca for Guayaquil early last Monday morning, flew to Miami, and left from Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday morning. Trekking through five international airports in two days would be exhausting no matter the circumstances, but […]
Comida de Ecuador #MountMartes
Welcome back to another #MountMartes blog post, but from Maryland. We returned to Maryland last Tuesday and throughout the past week, I have been reminiscing about everything that I experienced in Ecuador. The thing I miss the most about Ecuador is the amazing food and cuisine we experienced. This week, […]
From the Old to the New: #HolyThursday at Cuenca’s Catedral Nueva
Hello, everyone! Unfortunately, I’m writing this post from the United States and not from Cuenca. Due to the COVID-19 virus, our group of Mounties had to return home early. It’s certainly not the way we all planned this semester to go, but I can speak for the group when I […]
Goodbye, Cuenca! #MountMartes
As you can read from the title, we are coming home from Cuenca, Ecuador. By the time this post is uploaded, we should be back in Maryland. We are leaving due to the growing pandemic that is COVID-19, and we will all miss Cuenca and Ecuador so much, as we […]