Most of you know because I tried to spread the word about it but in November I completed GVI’s Big 5 Charity Challenge. It was a 5 day challenge where we travelled 350km using non-motorized transport. It was over 200…
A part from the farm animals, much of where my time is spent is in the garden. Some of the basics this entails are the following: weed eating the property, watering the greenhouse, weeding the existing beds, creating seedlings, planting…
Oh American Holidays… One of the many things that is really hard to explain to Indians, well anyone not from American actually. The time honored tradition of how the Native Americans were gracious hosts to the pilgrims who wanted to…
Thursday November 3rd Well today was…different. Yeah, different. We’ll go with that. The day started out fairly normal. We noticed that the sewage which we saw spewing up yesterday was still going didn’t think that much of it. I took…
Thursday November 3rd Well today was…different. Yeah, different. We’ll go with that. The day started out fairly normal. We noticed that the sewage which we saw spewing up yesterday was still going didn’t think that much of it. I took…
This past weekend the other American interns and myself went of the midterm retreat for our session. For me it is no where near midterm, but the others are here for shorter times than me. Our trip to Udiapur, “The…
If you would have asked me last term I would have said that it was chaotic. But comparatively speaking, this term has been much more chaotic. School has been ending much earlier for various reasons testing, flooding, etc. It has…
If you would have asked me last term I would have said that it was chaotic. But comparatively speaking, this term has been much more chaotic. School has been ending much earlier for various reasons testing, flooding, etc. It has…
The end of the second week carried me to Wanaka, New Zealand. The city is known as the Gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park since the tracks leading to the peak the conservation is named after start there. Graham and…
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before but there is a new long term teaching volunteer here. I am very happy about this because I have been working so hard here and having someone else here to help me…