First-Year Global Jumbos

The Blog of the Tufts 1+4 Bridge Year and Tufts Civic Semester

Monthly Archives: June 2018

by Rujen Amatya A year ago, I was a social media addict. I loved using Facebook, Instagram and, Snapchat. I enjoyed sharing updates through my photo and video posts. I was often busy with my cell phone messaging friends and being updated about the lives of hundreds of followers. However, […]

Why I quit social media

This entry was posted in 2017-2018 Tufts 1+4 Fellows Tufts 1+4 Brazil on June 29, 2018

by Nadia Rosales All my life I have been Mexican. Through the years, I have had to grapple with what that means, globally and otherwise. I have had a rough time shaking off stereotypes, but my identity was always on the defensive- I was always proving that I was Mexican, […]

On Being Mexican in Nicaragua

This entry was posted in 2017-2018 Tufts 1+4 Fellows Tufts 1+4 Nicaragua on June 26, 2018

by Linnea Otto “Here is your food, my queen.” Doña Violet beamed to a child who stood barely taller than her knees. Her voice held such a tone of reverence that it seemed she was truly speaking to royalty. The child responded with a goofy smile, showing the gaps in […]

An Angel

This entry was posted in 2017-2018 Tufts 1+4 Fellows Tufts 1+4 Nicaragua on June 23, 2018

by Chastidy Vasconez Last week I tagged along with my friend to her placement at Fundacion Mundo Sin Barreras—a disabilities house that supports people of ranging conditions, providing them with computer, art, and music classes, along with occupational therapy. I had the opportunity to sit in on a music class […]

Mundo Sin Barreras

This entry was posted in 2017-2018 Tufts 1+4 Fellows Tufts 1+4 Ecuador on June 21, 2018

by John Lazur The Indio-Maiz Biological Reserve (IMBR) is what some people call “The Lung of Central America.” For good reason too: the reserve covers some 110 million acres (only slightly smaller than the state of Delaware.) Indio-Maiz has also been heralded as “the gem of Central American nature reserves” […]

Indio-Maiz

This entry was posted in 2017-2018 Tufts 1+4 Fellows Tufts 1+4 Nicaragua on June 20, 2018

by Elizabeth Kenneally When my parents came to visit me during la Semana Santa, one of the only plans I made beforehand was to take them to a market. Markets in Cuenca aren’t just places to see pretty arrays of fruit and buy 5 avocados for a dollar; they are […]

Video: Mercado

This entry was posted in 2017-2018 Tufts 1+4 Fellows Tufts 1+4 Ecuador Video Post on June 17, 2018

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