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My name is Katie Heird and I am an International Programs Coordinator here at CEDEI. I started working here in June, and although I am fairly new to the Office of International Programs (OIP), I am no stranger to Ecuador. I studied here during the Spring Semester Program in 2006 and worked as an intern in OIP in January of 2007 with the Intersession Program. After a crazy summer here at CEDEI,

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Saludos de Ecuador!Time flies faster in the Andes! We sadly said goodbye to the Intersession Program in January, we are already two thirds of the way through the Spring Semester in the Andes Program, and the Ohio Quarter students are settling in quickly during their first week in Cuenca. We got thoroughly wet during the Carnival celebrations and are now preparing for the 450th birthday

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Summer 2006, NewsletterWow! What a summer! CEDEI is in full swing this summer with 1 spring program come and gone that overlapped 6 simultaneous summer programs. Currently, we are hosting almost 100 students taking classes, doing tutorials, going on trips and becoming members of our host families here in Cuenca. The staff has been working tirelessly to get everything in order, and finally

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February/ March 2006, NewsletterSPRING SEMESTER IN THE ANDESWith all the nerves of being in a different country out of the way, the Spring Semester in the Andes students have really flourished in their new home of Cuenca, Ecuador. In the first cycle of classes, some of the students enjoyed a rare opportunity to take either an Environmental class or a Biodiversity class taught by Dr. David

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Warm Holiday Greetings from Cuenca!Fall Semester in EcuadorThe time is coming near and after a rich and fruitful semester our FallSemester in the Andes students are preparing for their departure on December12th. Their Spanish levels are strong and many have developed nearly perfectCuencano accents. More have connected strongly with their Cuencana familiesand are now devising methods for staying

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Fall Semester in EcuadorGreetings from Cuenca! Our Fall Semester sudents continue to explore and enjoy the diverse aspects of life and culture in Ecuador. They are now considered the sons and daughters of their host families and have participated in numerous excersions around the country. In mid-October the students visited the extraordinary El Cajas National Park, where they experienced

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Fall Semester in EcuadorOur pioneering Fall Semester in Ecuador students has arrived in Cuenca! Inearly September the intrepid group began their exciting semester program.This program, co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, isfocused on Communications and TV News Production in the developing world.Students have been shooting footage during all of their cultural classes andfield

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NewsletterAugust 20051. CEDEI Classes at our Community Arts School continue with more offerings of both tropical and classical dance, hand-made jewelry, guitar, painting and lesson on how to be a clown. A new round of black and white photography classes, taking full advantage of our darkroom and photo studio, taught by respected photographer Mike O?Brien begins on August 1st. All of these courses

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NewsletterAugust 20051. CEDEI Classes at our Community Arts School continue with more offerings of both tropical and classical dance, hand-made jewelry, guitar, painting and lesson on how to be a clown. A new round of black and white photography classes, taking full advantage of our darkroom and photo studio, taught by respected photographer Mike O?Brien begins on August 1st. All of these courses

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1. CEDEI This month an exciting new program of courses begins in our Community Arts School. The list of offerings includes: both tropical and classical dance, hand-made jewelry, guitar, painting and black-and-white photography. All of these courses are available to our students at a discounted rate, and are free to our English language teachers. Talking of which, a new cycle of English classes

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1. CEDEI This month promises to be an exciting one for CEDEI and its students. Our group programs will be visiting amazing sites around both Ecuador and Peru, several new individual students will arrive from both the US and UK, and our 600+ English students will be finishing up this term, with sights ahead on the summer. In addition, there are several cultural activities planned, such as a

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CEDEIOur English Department has welcomed 14 new teachers in advance of the next cycle of classes, due to begin in the first week of April. On 18 April the Arts School also begins a new term, with courses in Classical Guitar and Handmade Jewelry slotting alongside more classes in theater, recycled paper and Latin dance. Our Training Center begins the second phase of its courses in English language

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CEDEIOur new building (we moved in last August, but it still seems new) continues to develop, with a studio and darkroom now available for photography students in our Community School of Arts. The offerings of the Arts School are fascinating, with both Ecuadorians and gringos coming together to shake their things in the popular Latin dance class, and new courses in handmade jewelry, pyrography

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Linder and Ed Originally uploaded by Semester. Ed Toth and local biologist Linder Suin standing above the cloud-forest covered hills of Tambillo Forest, a collectively owned forest outside of Jima. The forest is unique in the amount of biodiversity it houses (especially in birds and orchids) and in the fact that Jima has made a collective decision to maintain the forest. However, in

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English teachers Originally uploaded by Semester. CEDEI has a program to help locals guides and students learn English. The program was started by Kaye Wilson (a self-described Jimaphile) and is being continued by the current crop of teachers, including English director Finnoula Griffin (left) and Catherine Jones.

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clinic Originally uploaded by Semester. Although Jima is only 2 hours from Cuenca (Ecuador's third largest city) it can feel like stepping back in time. Large rubber boots are the norm, wool is spun by hand, and government medicine is almost non-existent. Jima is being considered as a stop for the Medical Spanish in Ecuador program (www.cedei.org/cuenca/programs/medspanish/) as

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Immigrant house Originally uploaded by Semester. However, times are changing as the money from immigrants in the US and Spain continues to flow back into Jima. Houses like this one are common througout the Ecuadorian Andes. During my stint as an English teacher (~1 year), over 90% of my students had a direct relative living in the US. As much as immigrant money helps families in the

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ckr.com/photos/51681033@N00/5018986/">House_ruralOriginally uploaded by Semester. On Saturday, Feb 12th, a group of staff, students and friends went out to Jima, a small town about 2 hours southeast of Cuenca. While the main purpose of the visit was to introduce students Full Immersion Spanish Program students Ed and Patty Toth to the Peace Corps volunteers currently in town, it was also an

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CEDEI Our English Department is busy giving classes to almost 800 Ecuadorian students, many of whom study with us as part of a CEDEI scholarship. The interchange of language and culture that takes place in the classroom between students and teachers (all native English speakers) also continues our mission of promoting understanding between the Americas. The Community Arts School continues

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CEDEI The Community Arts School begins the New Year with an expanded syllabus of classes, including Black and White Photography (a darkroom is presently being constructed), jewelry making, music and song, and theater, along with new cycles of last year's successes, the courses in painting, digital photography, Latin American dance, animation, puppet-making and Asian breathing methods. Thirteen

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