Semester XII Orients Themselves to Idaho Life
…goals and norms, a small group of representatives convened to craft a statement of our desired culture: a Community Contract. In the Community Contract, our students stated unequivocally that they…
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The First Day of Spring 2018
…spaces, and meaningful interdisciplinary lessons planned over hot coco by the fire. Travel plans, paperwork, months of anticipation, all in preparation for today: the first full day of Alzar Semester…
Chilean Flavor – Making Pebre in Choshuenco
…other nights, garlic-filled and salmon-colored, others still, spicy and pale pink. It complements every meal wonderfully, from simple bread and butter to sausage and bean stew. Since we first arrived…
¡Bienvenidos a Chile, Gringos! – Jordan Schrage
…Then we hopped in a car and tried to get out of Santiago. Santiago is a lot like Boise because there are lots of foothills everywhere but it’s hot here…
Reflections of Home: Where I Come From Poems
…I Come From.” Jacob from Atlanta writes: A quaint house in a little neighborhood. Asphalt hot underneath the summer sun. Roads surrounded by oak trees and pinewood. This is where…
Asado, by Lexi
…a beautiful house with the most breathtaking view ever. It looks over Curico with an infinity pool and a hot tub. Then, after a night of swimming dinner started. The…
Chaco tans and cornbread pans by Joe
Every day starts almost the same. Wake up too hot, step outside and it’s too cold. My nose is too stuffy to breath through. I stumble through the morning twilight…
Elena’s thoughts on FLOW
…stayed in a hole longer than I was comfortable with. Other people are missing cell phone service and high speed Internet. I find myself desperate for running hot water and…
My First Meal, by Molly
…to check any type of weather report upon arriving and were unprepared in our jeans and long yoga pants for the hot summer here in Chile. As we arrived to…
Living Inter-Textually: Where are the walls in this classroom?
Our second day on campus, we spent outdoor activity discovering our 100acre campus on snowshoes. We shouted war cries as we raced each other through the snowpack, practiced communication skills…
Finding Character in Wilderness
…brushed away the idea of communicating my displeasure and instead let it eat at me, worsening my attitude. Communication is an area which I need to pay special attention to…
mountains to MOUNTAINS
…book; brightly colored but one-sided and flat. The difference between seeing the Andes versus physically being in them is hot versus cold, up versus down, in versus out. As we…