Lawrence-Itpapua Reception on Sunday!

The Lawrence-Itapua Exchange is now in its fourth year of building friendship, and cultural and linguistic understanding between the young people of Lawrence, Kansas and Encarnacion, Itapua in Paraguay.     This month we will be wecloming our fourth delegation of students from Itapua with a public reception on Sunday, January 29th from 1:30 to [...]

The Lawrence High School Spanish Club, with teachers Karen Hyde and Pat Wittry,  hosted a merienda for their Paraguayan visitors last week–we hope you enjoy the photos!      

The march of the Paraguayans

Yes, it’s true.  Our friends from the south have made their way to the frosty north just in time to experience a blizzard–here’s a group photo at the welcome party at the Kallenbergers. Bienvenidos! From left to right are:  Mara Antell, Karen Hyde, Stu Strecker, Lorena Larroza, Eduardo Benitez, Marie Otani, Diego Ivasiuten, Adriana Denis, [...]