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2019 Tufts Civic Semester Students

1. What was your Civic Semester experience? As a rising junior, how if at all has Civic Semester impacted your Tufts experience beyond your time in the program? Absolutely positive! Just the idea that I’m writing about how awesome this program was already excites me. I’m not saying this in […]

Looking Back, Would You Do it Again? Q&A with Civic ...

This entry was posted in 2019 Tufts Civic Semester Students Civic Semester Peru Tufts Civic Semester on April 12, 2021

A recap by Abi, Tufts Civic Semester Participant

Video: Civic Semester Peru 2019

This entry was posted in 2019 Tufts Civic Semester Students Civic Semester Peru Tufts Civic Semester Video Post on April 3, 2020

by Abi, Tufts Civic Semester Participant Dear Perú, I’m sitting here trying to figure out what I could possibly say that could express what you’ve meant to me over the past three months and I’m drawing a blank. If you’d told me a year ago that I’d be here in […]

A Love Letter to Perú

This entry was posted in 2019 Tufts Civic Semester Students Civic Semester Peru Tufts Civic Semester on December 2, 2019

by Isabelle, Tufts Civic Semester Participant The rain was falling hard outside in messy drops while Marilu took her cutting board off the shelf and a knife from the drawer, setting up onions to be chopped. While she laid out her materials, I did the same, but with a notebook […]

Marilu, el mundo y la naturaleza

This entry was posted in 2019 Tufts Civic Semester Students Civic Semester Peru Tufts Civic Semester on November 18, 2019

by Yong Quan, Tufts Civic Semester Participant Coming from a country where 90% of its food is imported and the agriculture industry is almost non-existent (although there’s a growing movement now!), working in a farm always seemed like the most far-off thing I could do growing up. The hard conditions, […]

Farms & Stuff

This entry was posted in 2019 Tufts Civic Semester Students Civic Semester Peru Tufts Civic Semester on November 5, 2019

by Austen, Tufts Civic Semester Participant To put it mildly, I’m not the best with directions. One of my biggest worries about spending three months in Urubamba was spending three months without the assistance of Google Maps, which has always been my guiding light, whether I’m driving somewhere new or […]

Getting Lost

This entry was posted in 2019 Tufts Civic Semester Students Civic Semester Peru Tufts Civic Semester on November 4, 2019

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