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After completing my undergraduate degree, I lived in Peru for seven months. For most of that time, I worked as a volunteer with H elping Overcome Obstacles Peru (HOOP), a nonprofit supporting families in a small town outside of Arequipa. I also spent a month traveling around the country, seeing as much as I could before it was time to leave. The majority of these articles are a collection of travel stories, but as I reflect and revisit this place in my mind some years later, I look forward to thoughtfully adding to topics related to traveling to Peru, living in Peru as a foreigner, and why Peru is a wonderful country to visit.

October Travels In Peru

By: Claire

On: October 31, 2017

In: Peru

Hi everyone! Laura and I just parted ways and as per usual I’m behind on my actual blog updates. To rewind for a sec: We both finished our jobs volunteering as English teachers with HOOP at the end of September, and traveled around Peru together for the month of October.Continue Reading

Cracking the Chrysalis

By: Claire

On: October 9, 2017

In: Peru

I’m irrevocably different than who I was four months ago. Sharper. More assertive. More selfish. More empathetic. Less willing to share myself, but more giving of myself. More okay with being a paradox, with being a crescendo of internal conflict that ebbs and flows and directly correlates with my need to write.Continue Reading

Drinking And Thinking

By: Claire

On: September 7, 2017

In: Peru

“Why do we have these places, these things, that settle into the folds of our minds like a new idea and eventually flatten out into its recesses, never forgotten but not prioritized?”Continue Reading