One More Day…
In less than 24 hours, I will be on my way to Germany! I am SO excited and nervous! I have spent this first half of my summer with family in Daytona Beach, so it feels extra surreal that Im…
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Moving Seasons
Now that I am a bit more settled I can tell you all what I have been up to the past couple of weeks! Let’s start off with the big news… I finally have a new phone! My wonderful, amazing,…
Social Enterprise in the Developing World
As we embark on the adventure of finally selling our first Queen Bee products, I feel obligated to stop for a moment and relate my educational preparation to this current experience. To start, my personal definition of social enterprise is…
Entrepreneur as Autodidact
Sometimes I regret choosing Social Entrepreneurship as a college major. As I work with Hilary and the Monte Cristo team to start Queen Bee from scratch, I often wish I would have gone to school for engineering, chemistry, or computer…
Arrival
It is so crazy how so much can happen in one week! First things first, the flight here was nothing less than a journey. This is the second time I have made the 30 hour journey to South Africa but…
Sompopos
The end of May is an exciting time in Guatemala; I’ve been looking forward to it since we arrived. A mysterious thing happens after the first big rain comes, and it was really cool to be a part of it. …
Day Against Smoking
Last Friday we had an awesome day walking more than 6 kilometers with our students from Monte Cristo in a march against smoking. We started off the day at the town hall with speeches from the mayor of Chimaltenango and…
Updates on Queen Bee
We’re super excited because last week we ordered over 700 metal containers for our first major run of Queen Bee products. This week we also had a training workshop with CEMOC’s leadership to teach them how to make the product…
poems of guatemala in may
Guatemala changes to winter in May and then cold the rain comes. Storm clouds gather in council on the mountains to beat warm their thunder drums. The roses return to full bloom in the garden and their thorns love like…
This is it!
Well, this is it! I leave in a few hours from Amritapuri to Cochin Airport to fly back home to California. I’ll admit I’m excited to be back home in San Diego and looking for a job back in the…