My daughter Gabriela is doing a quasi-virtual internship in Peru that she created for herself!

My daughter Gabriel just graduated high school and in fall she will start her college career at Temple University!  In April 2019 she participate on an exchange in spring 2019 in Lima, Peru through Spotlight Perú: A Performing Arts Company. In August 2019 she returned as an Invited Artist for Spotlight Perú. She misses her friends from Lima and is now doing a quasi-virtual internship through Spotlight Perú over the next few weeks. Essentially, she will be connecting with the students via Zoom every once in a while to talk to the students and to provide guidance and feedback! Very proud of her!

Here she is Zooming in to Spotlight Perú  from our home here in Chicago on May 15, 2020 

Below are several embedded Spotlight Perú Facebook posts that feature my daughter Gabriela!

A year ago my daughter was on a short-term exchange program in Lima, Peru and these are the only two photos she had taken of her!

A year ago, my daughter was in Lima, Peru on a short-term exchange through her summer theater program (she returned with a friend as an invited teacher/mentor for ~10 days last August!). When she was in Lima last April I asked if she could get some photos taken of her. Here are two photos of her at La Basílica y Convento de San Francisco de Lima on a very sunny day...so sunny, that in one photo she is shading her eyes with her hand and in the other photo her eyes were closed! So, when I was in Lima in July 2019 I tried to recreate the photos of her!

My daughter and her friends in Lima, Peru

After a flight delay on Sunday and an unexpected night in a hotel in Panama City, Panama my daughter and her are now in Lima, Peru and spent their first night with their host families last night!

My 17 year old daughter is off on a nine day exchange to Peru!

Yesterday, my daughter drove our family through a blizzard to O’Hare where she is off to Lima, Peru for nine days on an exchange through her summer theater program. Will be able to post about her host family at a later date!

In the summer between 7th and 8th grade she participated on an eleven day service-learning trip to Ecuador through her middle school and you can see more about that trip here and here!