Reading the recent posts Living in Two Worlds at Once and Living a Double Life got me thinking about a challenge I feel like I’ve been working on for most of my life. How do you balance your time among all those parts of your life that you want the most? During my time in [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mia Scavone’
Volunteers and NGOs: The Argentine Perspective
A few weeks back, I wrote about my fellow international volunteers at the AFOS Fundacion. This week I would like to talk about the Argentine volunteer staff that make our experience possible. First, a note about AFOS. While searching Idealist.org for volunteer opportunities in Argentina, it was AF[...]
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[...]
