Culture & Society in Ecuador and the United States

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield University write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Kai Szostak describes observations during their study abroad program at the Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences in Ecuador.