Reisverslag Perú - Travelreport Perú
The university of Piura
The university of Piúra was founded in 1967 outside Piúra, in the middle of the desert. It houses now 5 faculties, among which economic and business sciences. It is a catholic university with a philosophy to educate its students in an integral manner, that is not only professionally, but with a broad sense a moral and ethical values as well. This is part of the mission of the university to use the academic knowledge for the benefit of the people and their conditions in the Piura region and Perú. The university has a very good reputation in Peru. The campus is a lovely place to work as you can see from the pictures.
Green, green, green campus with pavo reales (peacock)
lizards, deer etc walking around
Main street. Yeah, Main building, i was on 2nd floor
the university is like a village; in the room with the fan
everybody
knows each other.
and the watersupply.
Lucky me.
The
university has about 4,000
In there, the stinging sun
students, 200´profesores´and 5 doesn´t catch me
faculties.
Guido
in front
With Gustavo
of the main entrance.
Rodriguez (Auditing
professor) in front of
Campus Lima (San Isidro)
Academic Inauguration ceremony
26th April 2003
The inauguration of the new academic year (which starts in March and lasts till end of December) is always a quite formal and festive happening with the over a 1,000 people, national hymn, officials of university and politics, and all professors and teachers of the university. Especially it is organized as a graduation ceremony of the hundreds of students that graduated the academic year before. Also a famous scientist delivers a speech about a special topic. For me, it was off course the first time and I was happy to be there in the open air, in the heart of the academic community. All professoral staff wear a kind of cloth of which the color shows which faculty they are from. For us economists, it was orange. Yes, the Dutch color, I chose the right place. It could be useful wearing it for the dutch ´Koninginnedag´as well...
From
r. to l.
:
From r. to l. :
César,
Iván,
Gustavo,
Milagros,
Fernando
Álvaro, Guillermo, and me Claudia
From r. to l.: Rector
Abruña Puyol, me and
Edward Mulder,
another Dutchman
Activities & friends
Gustavo and Julio, collegues ( who Alfredo, Gustavo and
helped me so much to survive the Jose Luis, my fellow
first week after arriving ) sitting in a occupants in the
restaurant in Catacaos boarding house
the first 2 weeks
Pepe, my best friend in Piura; Me and my bike in a brilliant schoolteacher front of my house
Where I lived: a clean The host family: Fidel Piccini
and shiny family house, and Ana Huaman. Lovely
very nice family taking and warm hearted people
care of me, 1 block away
from the university Again: Lucky me.
Our weekly football (fulbito, With Pepe and
5 on 5 on hardcourt) team, Father Casimir in
with our the schoolyard
supergoalgetter
Hugo,
in the Salesian
robust midfielder
Alvaro,
College C/Libertad
and our pinchhitter Julio
Las Olimpiadas
5-21 november 2003 - Universidad de Piura
Every year real olympics are held where the 5 faculties compete in
about 10 disciplines, each in its colour (mine was orange of
Economics...how appropiate). I acted as a coach for the cyclists,
and took part in athletics and bike racing. I won 5 gold medals, wow....
The
best week of my life.
The 12 km trial The misses that kisses
4X100 m relay... I hit The award ceremony
the road with the winning economics
team