From the shore of the Pacific Ocean in Lima, Peru to the floating villages at 12,500-foot elevation on Lake Titicaca, Peru is a beautiful country filled with courteous and colorfully-dressed people. This Talk concentrates on three distinct features of the country: The Inca ruins located at the higher elevations which naturally includes the improperly-named Machu Picchu; the people, their homes and their colorful clothing; and the area around Lake Titicaca to include the floating island villages. The segment on Panama is brief and focuses on the difference in the instructors’ expectations of what the canal would look like and its actual configuration. At the conclusion of the Talk, all attendees receive, via email, an illustrated document that provides more in-depth information than that given during the PowerPoint presentation. Sorry, Peruvian guinea pig and coca tea is not served during the talk.
Registration ends: September 15, 2022
Instructor: Jeff Eastman
For 42 years Jeff taught overseas for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools (now DoDEA) where students are the dependent children of U.S. military personnel. Although he taught a variety of subjects over the years, one of his favorite endeavors was to help teachers and their students get off-base to see local historical, cultural and geographical features of our host nations. Personally, Jeff had always wanted to visit Machu Picchu and see the reed boats of Lake Titicaca since learning about them in elementary school. The Panama Canal also intrigued him since childhood, especially from the time his grandfather quizzed him about the canal’s geographic orientation, something that fascinated his grandfather during his transit of the canal back in the 1950’s.
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