Last week, I was accompanying a delegation of high school boys from Boston, Massachusetts. I don’t have any brothers, so it was a very educational experience for me. Apparently, the life of a high school boy involves a lot of hacky sack, guitar picking, references to adult cartoons, and, if he[...]
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Of Leap Years and Underwear
I’m a leap year junkie; that extra day every fourth February reminds me of so many hopeful, calming truths. It reminds me that every system has an outlier and every rule, an exception, even in something as basic as how we measure time. It reminds me that for all our hubris, we human beings hav[...]
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December 27th, 2011 - 9:25 am § in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Day in the Life, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, In the Field, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Tips & Resources, Volunteer
45 More Tips from Kiva Fellows in South America
Sixteen classes of Kiva Fellows have been working in the field for Kiva for years now. We upload borrower profiles. We make field visits. We battle typhoid, malaria, and poisonous spiders the size of our heads. Now, we’re no experts in living or working abroad (though we sure do like it), but[...]
