Tag: arriving

Already Strained Cities are Struggling to Support Arriving Migrants

Many Central American migrants are fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries. In Honduras, the homicide rate is one of the highest in the world (41.2 per 100,000 in 20201). And in El Salvador, nearly a quarter of the population lives in poverty. It is not just violence and ...

Week One: Arriving in Japan

I actually had an advantage over my other colleagues who were enrolled in the program, because I grew up speaking Japanese, and have visited the country on multiple occasions. I’m also half-Japanese if that matters. But I feel like this multi-cultural background that I have ended up becoming o...

Day 7 and 8: Actually arriving in Thailand ??? and thoughts on things

Thank goodness there are always people in a group who are willing to take on the temporary duty of a Social Committee. Lautaro Spotorno did it for us at the end of Week 1 and came up with a great program for the one long weekend we have here (Chulalongkorn Day). On Friday evening, i...