by Maegan Aldous, University of Vermont For the past five days, the ten of us students have been living on the campo (farm in Spanish) for our homestays, completely immersed in the gaucho culture and practicing our Spanish. We had a…
by Ella Mighell, University of Vermont Puerto Eden – remote and isolated might be word associations for a traveler who spends half an hour walking the limited boardwalks of Isla Wellington as the ferry unloads barrels of petroleum, rolls of building…
By Ashley Novella, University of Vermont After a two-day ferry ride through a labyrinth of fjords in the south of Chile, we finally set foot onto the soil of a sixty-inhabitant town of Puerto Edén. This vast region is…
by Henry Dodge, Colby College Hello Round River community! My name is Hank Dodge and I’ve had the privilege of being an intern for the Round River Botswana program throughout the month of January 2018. As a student at…
By Emma Gwyn, University of Vermont On the 14th of January, we all landed in Punta Arenas were we met our instructors and spent the next a few days going over program logistics, getting to know each other and…