My SHIP funded experience was my Summer of Service for the Bonner Program. Through both Bonner and SHIP funding, I was able to spend 7 weeks this past summer in Cusco, Peru. The area of impact for the SHIP grant was participation in a volunteer or service experience. My roommate and I researched various non-profits who had programs in South America. We were both very interested in being in a South American country in order to not only experience something new, but to help us with our Spanish language skills. We eventually found A Broader View Corps, a small non profit based in Pennsylvania that focused on community service and engagement in areas that need volunteers. Throughout the 7 weeks we volunteered for 280 hours per the Bonner Program’s requirements. We volunteered at two sites. The first was a local kindergarten where I was in a 4 year old classroom with 25 children. The second was an orphanage for children with disabilities. In the kindergarten class I was essentially a teaching assistant and would help the teacher with preparing daily activities and extracurriculars. I even was able to lead my own class periods and teach various ideas in English. I was able to teach the students the colors, insects and other animals in English. Our other volunteer site was an orphanage for people with disabilities that had both an adult section and a children’s section. I worked in the children’s ward. Most of the children have severe disabilities, being both in full body wheelchairs and mostly nonverbal. I would walk them around in their wheelchairs to get fresh air, help with laundry, and help feed the children during lunch and dinner time. Both of these experiences were very formative and it was so nice to be able to immersive myself into not only two separate non profits but in the Peruvian culture.