ECHO 2002 Daily Diary  
Columbia Education Center
ECHO 2002
DAILY DIARY
July 8-9, 2002

Today's ECHO activities brought to you by


Team Wildcats
Frank Spikes
Elfrieda Nafziger
Carrie Boden

 

Orientation in Miami.

 ECHO participants from Idaho,Oregon, Kansas, and Pennsylvania met at the Miami Airport Doubletree for a night of orientation with Dr. Ralph Nelsen and Debbie Nyman of the Columbia Education Center.
Practical details such as visas and luggage, as well as philsophical issues including the purpose of this program in the post 9/11 world and in the wake of financial exigencies in many states, were disscussed.


Orientation in Miami.


Participants in ECHO 2002 gathered in Miami prior to departing for Paraguay.

ECHO participants in the Miami airport.

 Prior to leaving on the flight to Sao Paulo, ECHO 2002 participants relaxed in the TAM Airlines departuare area in the Miami airport. After Sao Paulo, they flew on to Asuncion and began their month's work in Paraguay.


Jennifer showed off her prize from the
TAM Airlines raffle.

Wearly travelers arrived in Asuncion at 1 a.m.


On the left, TAM Airlines drawing winner, Jennifer Kilmsza sporting her new first-aide kit.
On the right, ECHO participants on their first bus ride in Paraguay.