GSE 2010: Team Introduction

Alfredo Oyola, Team Leader
ROTARY CLUB ICA SUR
Hello, my friends! Call me Alfredo. I am a physician (general practitioner) and epidemiologist. Also, I am a firefighter trained in urban and search rescue and hazmat technician. I live in Ica, at the south part of Peru, about 300 kilometers from Lima.

The province of Ica is an urban city located in the coast line and its main activity is agriculture. The department (like state) of Ica includes the provinces of Pisco, Nasca, Chincha, Palpa and of course Ica. The population of the department is about 680 thousand people and the province of Ica is about 370000 inhabitants.

I like to listen to music when travelling, so I like to travel any place enjoying the landscape during the trip. I am pleased to come back to the United Stated to meet new friends and establish new projects between Peru and The United States.


Chris Talavera

Please call me Christ. At the moment I am working supporting social projects and mobilizing human resources; making prevention programs of resilience, early stimulation.  Besides I give therapy and counseling to different emotional and intellectual problems in children and young. I live in the department of Arequipa which is located at the south of Peru. 

Arequipa is a volcanic area par excellence, you could see the "Misti" Volcano also the mountains "Chachani and Pichu-pichu". 

Arequipa has an area of 63.528 km2 and its population is around one million of habitants. The weather is warm on the coast and cloudy with high aridity, in the mountain area is dry with temperatures ranging between 24 º C and 10 º from January to March rainfall is moderate. The sun shines nearly every day of the year.

I like to know about literature, art and music. I like visit museums. I am pretty good dancing typical dances and poetry.

Kharla Manrique

Hello everybody, please, call me Kharla. I am a physician and a teacher. I work in a 24-hour medical center. We provide emergency assistance to native and foreign people. I also teach Microbiology in the local university.

I live in Puno, a city located on the highlands in the south of Peru. This city is famous because the Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. The city has around 300,000 inhabitants. The weather is cold and dry most of the year, but rainy in January and February.  
This city is well known because its folk music and the floating islands called Uros. I enjoy doing almost everything in my free time. I used to practice Tae Kwon Do.  

I like doing outside and inside activities. I am pretty good at learning new things. I am excited to visit Colorado to meet new people and become familiar with the American culture.

Marita Palomino
ROTARY CLUB REAL ICA

Hola, ¿qué tal? This is Marita from Ica, a city set on a valley on the southern coast of Peru, between the desert and the mountains, which is the hub of the cultural and economic dynamics in the region and it’s famous for being the origin of our national liquor, the Pisco.

I am an architect and I like to think about my professional activity, which includes consulting in the Regional Direction of Housing, a teaching assistantship in the local university and a private practice in a design studio, as an opportunity for a comprehensive approach to reality, which allows me to understand and improve it.

I love art as a way of expression and in all its manifestations: painting, sculpture, photography, music, poetry… architecture! I enjoy doing art projects with kids and preparing art interventions with friends as well as yoga, swimming and cooking.

Colorado seems to be a place of a complex and impressive geography, an important history and an interesting cultural life whose soul I would like to discover during this trip.