Looking at the power of entertainment over education in our class Theatre for Social Change

Discussing how education needs to transform itself

A short exploration of what our ancestors might think of how we educate

Wilson Pico reminds us that we must be in touch with our space in order to in touch with ourselves

Building trust is important to build new learning spaces

Using image theatre to explore that conflicts that inhibit our learning

Our work makes us realize how blind we are to what really goes on while "learning"

Finding multiple ways to narrate our stories. Alice singing that the "Third generation of women will be free"

Our local Nina Shunku counterpart Gladys has some fun in front of a mural of Transito Amaguaña, an Ecuadorian indigenous activist

Claire and her Ecuadorian nieces in Quito. Truly a part of the family

Our students joining an important march in Quito.

All our students were vegetarians this semester - cevichocho became an instant favorite

Our students were invited to work at the US Embassy's election night event, where they impersonated important women from US history.

Identity class in the patio at Santa Teresa de Pintag.

Recognizing our identities as complicated collective knots, we decided to experiment with human knots.

On a couple of occassions we bring food into the class.

Our class breaks are always important. Snacks, games, and just telling stories.

Our students find common historical connections with women in Pintag... both have powerful women figures that were once called witches

Our identities are shaped by the way they are expressed through story

Even the electicity going out can't stop a good story in class.

Kayla enjoying a hearty meal with her host family

Our Pintag host families welcomed us into their lives

One of our two scholarship recipients from the Amazon region, Shen, enjoying the fresh mountain air

A beautiful lake resting in front of nearby mountain, Antisana

Very near Pintag is this lovely waterfall, with scholarship recipients from the Amazon and Guayaquil, Marcos.

Our local counterparts on route with us to the Tiputini Biodversity Station, deep in the Amazon Rainforest

Students and local community members rest on a "small" branch of this Ceibo tree high above the rainforest

Everywhere we go, everything we do... always accompanied with reflection

Spending time with the lovely children of the community of Tzawata

Our home in Tzawata.. thanks Wayra.

Living by candlelight allows us to connect with others in different ways

Shen and Kayla painting faces in Tzawata

Students and counterparts out harvesting cacao fruit

Making sure each and every step of chocolate making is fun... and tells a story

Of course, eating the chocolate at the end of the process is just as pleasurable as making it

Our friends from the Amazon made us stop the car to see some funky white stuff along the mountain road

On our highlands excursion at the breathtaking vocanic crater lake, Quilotoa

Sophie recognizing that sometimes life is so beautiful you just have to stop and take it in

Words cannot describe

Sophie and Shen enjoy the sun's last rays of light.