Family Meets Host Family
This past week, my dad came to visit me in Buenos Aires. I took the week off from volunteering so that we could travel around Argentina (and to Uruguay). I can’t tell you how good it was to see a…
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Lifetime Learner
I will start off apologizing for taking so long to post a new blog. Two weeks come way too fast and I simply lost track of time this time around. Over the past few weeks I have experienced so many…
Colegio San Tarcisio
I am now teaching/tutoring in three different places throughout the city of Buenos Aires! I’ve already written about Colegio San Javier and Fundamind, but I want to tell you about Colegio San Tarcisio. Though all of these opportunities and schools…
Working Through Circumstances
Y’all two weeks really fly by! I mean it feels like I just wrote on here yesterday! Anywho… Even though these past two weeks have flown by, they have been packed with so many things that I can’t even remember…
Colegio San Javier
Today I went to Colegio San Javier to help at their after-school program. This school is about two blocks away from where my host family lives, and I walk by it almost every day. Last week I decided to walk…
Fundamind
Fundamind is a preschool that is partially funded by the government of the city of Buenos Aires. The rest of Fundamind functions off of donations. This school was started 20 years ago, and had one classroom of 20 three-year olds.…
Home
I spent this past weekend in Mendoza, Argentina. It is 13 hours by bus from Buenos Aires (and yes, I took an overnight bus). I was very excited to get out of the city for a bit, as Mendoza is…
Existing to Live
Sometimes it is easy to forget just how blessed we are to be on this earth. We get caught up in your complaints about what is going on around us and we forget to enjoy the rainbows in the clouds.…
The Volunteer World
Though it goes without saying, everything in Argentina is different. The government, the food, the language, the state of the economy, the seasons, the working world, and the volunteer world…they’re all different. As I’ve been preparing for my volunteer placement…
Party tomorrow?
It’s my last day in Guatemala and my last blog. So I guess this should be an invitation to the world to come to Nashville this weekend to PARTY! I haven’t had BBQ, Chipotle, Mexican Nachos, Chick-fil-a, Cap’n Crunch, or…