Since September, my co-worker Lauren and I have been holding weekly fundraising events here in Cusco, and with just a month and a half left we’re also gearing up for events to be held back in the States. Here is a brief I outline of our fundraising endeavors from abroad and at home: I. Fundraisers[...]
Posts Tagged ‘sports’
iGoooooool!
I open this week’s post with a public service announcement: the Copa Mundial starts this Friday. Perhaps a fairly obvious announcement, for those of us already living in Latin America; but if you, dear reader, are logging in from the USA or perhaps Mars, let this serve as notice to please view[...]
Happiness is: New Experiences and Unpredictability in a Foreign Country
“Maybe we mistakenly think we want ‘happiness’, which we tend to picture in very vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged intensity of experience.” I read this in a New York Times article two days before leaving the States for my yearlong stint in Cusco. Nine mo[...]
Challenging Gender Norms
Last week I wrote about the personal decisions we all have to make when it comes to challenging cultural norms. Here I elaborate on my experience challenging one of the most deeply-rooted cultural norms of Nicaragua: the role of the muchacha. I’m an unofficial athlete and one of the things I obser[...]
