I’ve kind of been out of action for a while, so excuse the long gap between posts. But after crossing the six month mark in Argentina, the novelty has worn off and the differences between a volunteer life and a professional life have started to blur, and I feel further and further removed from my [...]
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Why We Do What We Do
“Why are you here?” she asked. My Spanish teacher, who is equally perplexed on how I “forget” to pronounce all vowels in each word, asked our group of beginning Spanish speakers why we traveled from Sweden, USA and Ireland to volunteer in Cordoba, Argentina. Maybe, she questi[...]
Seeing the World in New Ways
Every month we’ll be posting an entry from a guest contributor who has some advice, resources, information and/or inspiration they want to share. This month’s guest contributor is Tom Hemingway. Tom Hemingway has explored the outer limits of Latin America from the U.S. to Argentina through many [...]
January 22nd, 2010 - 10:29 am § in Argentina
Arriving Just In Time
I left home days before the calendar changed from 2009 to 2010. A date I vacillated upon for weeks, finally ticketing my flight three weeks before departure (despite daily ridicule from friends and colleagues). I couldn’t decide whether to give myself more time to finish projects at home where I [...]
Mate Makes Amigos
One of the best ways I’ve found to bond with Argentinians is over a helping of mate. Mate is the local tea that, it is said, just about all Argentinians drink, though after spending enough time here, you quickly learn that the idea of drinking it all day is more of a myth. Some don’t [...][...]
December 16th, 2009 - 11:03 am § in Argentina, Volunteer Spotlight
Volunteer Spotlight: Facing Paco in Buenos Aires
Jennifer Yael Green is a writer and traveler who most recently spent a year as an English instructor in South Korea. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, she lives her life striving to write something worth reading, or to do something worth writing about. She spent several months volunteering in a [...]
Would It All Be Worth It If…?
I heard some sad news on Saturday night. A very good friend of mine from my volunteer program in Ecuador had to rush home to be by her brother’s side. He was sick with swine flu and pneumonia, and on Friday night he passed away. Lauren and I were placed at the same university in [...][...]
