How can volunteering help you in the real world? There are countless reasons that I won’t go into here, but they include adding something to your resume, allowing you to give something back to the world, or giving you some important life skills. Over the long Holy Week weekend (Easter), I realized[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rob Packer’
April 1st, 2010 - 11:26 am § in Around Town, Colombia
You, You and You
After three months of volunteering in Colombia and with one left, I’m starting to put my time here in perspective, think of what motivated me to come here and what I’ve liked most about being here. Whenever I think of this, I keep thinking of the opportunity I’ve had over the last three months[...]
Working in the Barrios
Celeste’s fantastic post about favela tourism got me thinking about the differences between visiting and working with favelas (or barrios de invasion as they’re generally known in Colombia). One of the things that I most love about volunteering for Kiva in Barranquilla is that I’m in a city [...]
Day in the Life: Times are Changing
I feel I know Barranquilla reasonably well: I’m finding my way around the city, making friends and—at last—working out how to use the bus network, without needing to get off the bus because I misread where it was going. But for all I think I know Barranquilla, there’s another side that I’v[...]
Amigos
Once you’ve arrived at your ideal volunteer placement in Latin America, there’s often an awkward moment of realization when it feels like you’re back at your first day at school because you suddenly realize that you don’t know anyone and might be doing a lot of reading. Luckily for you, [...]
Day in the Life: Barranquilla Carnival – ¡Quien lo vive, es quien lo goza!
The motto of Barranquilla’s Carnival, or Carnaval in Spanish, is ¡Quien lo vive, es quien lo goza! (literally, “Anyone who lives it, is who enjoys it”). Over the past month, life in Barranquilla has been turned upside down as people live and enjoy the start of the Carnival season. Sin[...]
