Ready, Set, Quito!
Less than a month until I leave for Ecuador!!! I am so excited I can hardly focus on everything I need to get done. In the next two weeks, I am moving out of my apartment and putting everything into…
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Enkosi S-CAPE!
It has been about a week since returning home, and I am still at a loss of words for what this experience has done in me. I have been putting off writing this because I don’t think I have the…
Wonder
Wonder and wondering have been on my mind these last few days. The 23rd of May marked one year since hopping off the plane in Haiti to work, and it was the first time that I stopped and wondered why…
The last days
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…
Week Ten and Eleven | हप्ता दस र ग्यारह | (Hapta dasa ra gyaraha)
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…
Week Nine | हप्ता नौ | (Hapta Nau)
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)…
Bye’s, Belmont in Africa & Birthday’s!
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…
A not so easy week
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…
Ansanm N’ap Fleri
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…
Week Seven and Eight | हप्ता सात र आठ
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…