For the past eight weeks I’ve been seeing a 33 year old, Italian-Guatemalan, cheese farmer (“How does one farm cheese?” asks my always overprotective, Wisconsin-based father). While my usual type is the tight-pants-wearing, Arrested Development-watching, Scrabble kind of a kid, I d[...]
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Yeah, Yeah, Right Now…Project Management Abroad
After three month’s time at Ya’axché Consevation Trust, I have found versatility and patience to be the two most valuable qualities of an international volunteer. Being brought down to Belize under the title of Sustainable Land Use Management volunteer, my role has danced around between Co[...]
“Are You Peace Corps?”
As a foreigner meeting a resident of Southern Belize, the first question asked is always, “Are you Peace Corps?” Initially this came as a shock to me: I had never visited anywhere so impoverished that the mere presence of an American was automatically associated with volunteer work. Afte[...]
