Saturday, June 10, 2006

Me Personally

How am I? I am realizing that no matter how much I love home, it is soooo satisfying to witness such an experience impact such awesome students. Really. They are going home in 5 days, and they will never be the same. Never look at children, education, their houses, waste, running water, immigrants, and travel the same. just to mention a few things. 2 of 24 are staying longer to return to the Haitian villiage. One is coming back in August to live and work for a year. Others are planning their futures to make an impact like the one they witnessed the Crossroads family making. It's meaningful and real. It's tangable.

Digging Not so deep, I am looooving the massage trades I've made tonight- 3 so far. I"m trying Desperately to learn the Belly Roll for belly dancing. I stand in front of my mirror alone in my room!!! I fail miserably. quite upsetting- lol. I'm scared to begin the books I brought because I know I'll get sucked in (Barbara Kingsolver) I'm loving the convo's we've been having about religion but am not taking advantage of them. Chocolate here sucks. Milky Ways are expensive. I'm neglecting my email terribly.

I will be far from civilization for a good 3 days, so hang tight and be happy! This pic is of NOT me, but it's an adorable belly dancer. so lovely! yes, cartoon. but they are all so lovely!

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Mountains, baby




I can't undo the underlining, sorry! Anyways, whazzup now?

Being here (location ananymous)





















Doing this:










And then more canyong/repelling and exiting the river one this rickity (sp?) bridge. It was super perfect for shaking until. well. until a students was scared. Not part of the job! Anyways, cool.




















Fun Facts: This is one of the ONLY places in the entire Carib. that has Pine Trees. Yeah, right next to palm trees. soo pretty and it smells sooo good. It's because it's higher in elevation, and they are even able to grow apples and strawberries here. not the season. super bummer.
Another fun fact: only place in Carib. to have been glaciated.
the stuff we learn!

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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

my past week

Ok. i stink. I actually did type and retype a post 3 days ago, but it was long and i lost it twice and gave up. So here's a "nutshell" post!

Stuff worth writing: My group Rocks! In out hotel lobby before I even Met them they sang an acapella (sp?) version of Stand by Me. Like, full on with beat box and everything. amazing. Working together building stuff and singing with kiddies certainly helped =) i was emotional.

Canyoning is fabulous, and resulted in a lisp. What does that mean? Being that I can't be normal, I decided to Flip of a 30 ft cliff instead of nicely jumping. dumb. fun, but dumb. I am fine, nothing bad happened, but it was an impact "muy fuerte" and so there's a bit of a chip off my front tooth. don't worry, I still smile and it's not too noticable. i do have to relearn how to talk though. or move to Espana (Spain)... here's a pic of one of the waterfalls we repelled. we had to drop the last few feet =)










Let's see, we horseback rode to swim in this:

I am forgetting my stories, darn it! LOL, there are benefits to 22 girls and 2 guys in a group. For example, we went windsurfing and there were not nearly enough boards or instructors. but there were a bunch of chicas in bikinis. within minutes, we had kayakers and windsurfers all around to help us out. NO not sketchy, just extremely amusing! and pretty darn fun when the wind actually picked up.

I'm afraid that's all I got. if there's something y'all are curious about, tell me and i'll post it. I thought blogging would be easier here, but i was wrong...

Regardless, take care eh!

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