We are currently wrapping up our homestay week; tomorrow we head south to Granada. We have spent the past week in Albacete, a city of about 150,000 people to the southeast of Madrid. It is an entirely Spanish city, with nary an English speaker around, so everyone has been getting lots of opportunities to practice their Spanish!
Next we are off to Granada for five days, where we will visit the splendors of the Alhambra palace and take in a flameco show. All are excited to be reuniting as a group, although we are sure that many students will miss family life here in Albacete.
Until soon!
-Tim and Laura
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Tim Churchill and Laura Litwiller
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Flight Itinerary
Air France (AF 2631 is codeshare with Air Europa)
June 24: AF007 JFK/CDG 7:10 P - 8:50 A on June 25
June 25: AF1400 CDG/MAD 10:40 A - 12:40 P
July 27: AF2631 AGP/CDG 7:05 A - 9:30 A
July 27: AF006 CDG/JFK 1:15 P - 3:15 P
June 24: AF007 JFK/CDG 7:10 P - 8:50 A on June 25
June 25: AF1400 CDG/MAD 10:40 A - 12:40 P
July 27: AF2631 AGP/CDG 7:05 A - 9:30 A
July 27: AF006 CDG/JFK 1:15 P - 3:15 P
Trip Leaders
Tim Churchill and Laura Litwiller
LAURA LITWILLER
Goshen College, B.A. Spanish and Secondary Education; School for International Training, M.A. Candidate, International Education. Laura has traveled far beyond her Midwestern home of Northern Indiana. Her passion for language, culture, and travel began in college when she studied abroad in Costa Rica and Mexico. Hungry for more, she then traveled through Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. More recently, she spent six weeks in Spain exploring and hiking part of the Camino de Santiago. She spent this past summer in Thailand and Indonesia before beginning her Masters program at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Laura has taught high school Spanish in Chicago and Northern Indiana, English as a Second Language in Venezuela, and urban bicycling in Chicago. She also spent three years as an immigration paralegal and was very involved in the Chicago immigrant community as a volunteer and member of the board of directors of the organization Latinos Progresando. When she has time, she loves to dance, bike, swim, eat, and learn about the world through reading, documentaries, and cultural events. Laura is fluent in Spanish.
TIM CHURCHILL
Princeton University, B.A. History and Latin American Studies. While at Princeton, Tim spent seven months living in Santiago, Chile, where he studied at a Chilean university, volunteered teaching English, and conducted research for his senior thesis on human rights violations in Chile. He rowed for several years on the lightweight crew and was active throughout college in Princeton's Outdoor Action program, leading backpacking orientation trips and serving as a Leader Trainer and Program Coordinator. He has traveled extensively throughout Latin America and Europe, including a recent trip to complete the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile walk across northern Spain. In his free time, Tim enjoys reading, traveling, good food, almost all sports, rooting for his beloved World Champion Boston Red Sox, and any and all outdoor activities, including backpacking, hiking, running, skiing, snowshoeing, kayaking, and sailing. This Fall Tim will enter medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. This will be Tim's second summer with Putney. He led a Community Service program in Costa Rica in 2005. He is fluent in Spanish.