Some quick highlights/updates from my last two weeks! These will be expanded upon in my reflection post upon returning home L Both our residents had some big, and positive developments in their cases the past few weeks. Again, for confidentiality…
Then passed the first two weeks of my construction project in a blink of an eye. The next 9 weeks proved to be much more about the people and the stories of people as opposed to the work itself. When…
Twelve hundred rupees handed over to the bus employee secured my turbulent 6 hour ride to Pokhara. The 200 kilometers, or about 120 miles (which would only take a family of four in a van to cross about 2 hours)…
I am down to my last two weeks in Cape Town and I have not come to terms with the fact that I actually have to leave. I am in sheer denial. The last week has been filled with many…
My apologies for the late post! I have had a multitude of technical difficulties and my laptop has broken twice this month. Last week we had a couple public holidays so I got to spend a weekend in the woods…
Together we flourish. At the beginning of the year I was caught up in the phrase I first saw on a school bus turned public transport: together we move forward. After all, Haiti cries for advancement and progress requires us…
Sometimes, when you fail to look behind you and fix your eyes on where your feet are stepping, weeks, months, or even years can sift by as if condensed into a short synopsis in which you cannot match events…
The sixth sense. I saw dead people. No, really. Lining the banks of the river that flows through the acres of Pashupatinath, the world’s oldest and primary Hindu temple, family members embalm and burn their dead. The smell is…
The last 3.5 months were filled with highs, lows, and lots of unknowns in Ecuador. For the first time, I ran community programs by myself, lived as one of the only Americans in a remote valley, and navigated daily life…
Greetings from chilly Muizenberg, where it turning into WINTER! I told myself that I would be better about posting updates on this blog: So they are not novels like the past few have been So I can remember all the…