I’ve been super busy for the last couple of weeks, hence my lack of update. But now I bring to you, my final Peace Corps update! It’s an extremely exciting and happy time, but an overwhelmingly sad and emotional time as well. Let me start by explaining why I’m heading back to the states…
A while back, my sister, Zibby, and I were Skyping and we stumbled on the ability to see which terms people used in search engines like ‘Google’ and ‘Bing’ to end up clicking on my Blog for the Peace Corps. The majority of the search terms are quite normal and expected, however there are quite…
My last Peace Corps camp ever! It was a bittersweet experience, and I’m so glad that it happened. I got the lovely opportunity to travel with three of my favorite youth leaders down to San Cristobal recently. We got up at 2am, mounted the 3am Guagua and were in the Capital by 8am. I love…
I sit down at my computer this afternoon, exhausted, and think to myself “I haven’t blogged in a bit, I’ve got some free-time. What the hell.” But then I realized that I don’t really have anything that new or exciting to update about. My last two weeks have been day after day of the same,…
I now understand a lot of things better after starting labor intensive work on a Clean Cook, Lorena Stove Project. I now understand: how a GIANT bowl of rice and beans is still appetizing after eating a GIANT bowl of Yucca and fried eggs for breakfast. I am straight up hungry all the time. When…
Jesuuuuuu. Cuanto tiempo, eh? Quite a bit has happened over the last few weeks. The first big thing was the massive Santiago-Dajabon youth exchange. Long ago, a youth PCV, Jackie, and I came up with this idea to facilitate an intercambio between our youth groups. Jackie and I have been lucky in that we’ve…
Way back when, I believe I was mentioning how it’s like pulling teeth to start groups sometimes. It’s hard to motivate people to voluntarily attend a meeting where they will be sitting, for sometimes 2 hours, learning about how to mix a sugar/salt/water mixture for babies with diarrhea or how to properly wash your hands,…
