Posts Tagged ‘Andes’

June 22nd, 2010 - 10:00 pm § in Around Town, Chile, Volunteer

A Week of Three “Firsts”

This week was full of "firsts" for me. I explain in some detail my first week working at Colegio Anakena, experiencing my first Chilean World Cup win, and my first run up a mountain.[...]

August 14th, 2009 - 2:29 am § in Peru

For the Best Fruit, You Gotta Go Out on a Limb

One of the strangest (and sometimes dangerous) things that happens to me when I travel is that, as soon as I overcome the fear of releasing the comforts of home and board the plane, I magically lose all inhibitions.   On my first volunteer trip, to East Africa in 2007, I was newly engaged to be [[...]

August 3rd, 2009 - 8:49 am § in In the Field, Peru, Social Entrepreneurship, Volunteer

Where We Pull Apart, We Bind Together

Rolling in on the overnight bus last night, I wiped the glass on the sopping wet window to see a mamacha seated on a curb, and I couldn’t help but smile. I’d been gone from the Central Andean town of Ayacucho for about a week, and I had already begun to miss seeing the [...][...]





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