I am beginning to get to know the students and teachers better at Anakena and it feels so fulfilling.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘volunteering’
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.[...]
“When are you coming back?”
To go away is to die a little, it is to die to that which one loves. Everywhere and always, one leaves behind a part of oneself. – Edmund Haraucourt Field work requires comfort with transience. Many development workers parachute into places, build their lives from scratch, weave themselves i[...]
April 14th, 2010 - 5:15 pm § in Costa Rica, Volunteer
That is Not the Costa Rica I Know
A lot of people I know have visited Costa Rica and they loved it. The beaches were fantastic. They zip-lined through the rain forest. They saw monkeys from their hotel room. Hearing these stories, I quickly learned that despite my dabbling in being a tourist, the Costa Rica they visit and the Cos[...]
Let’s Talk About the “G-Word:” Gringo
Here’s my gringo story: I was 18 and I had just arrived in Guatemala to work as a volunteer teacher with Global Vision International. It was my first time living abroad and I barely spoke Spanish. I left my hotel in Antigua to go exploring, and from the window of a house across the street, [..[...]
How I Came to Be a Volunteer
I’d like to be straightforward with you from the very beginning and tell you that I’m no volunteering expert. In fact, I’m quite the novice. I’ve only volunteered once before and that was for one week during my freshman year of college. I had an incredible experience and left intending to do[...]
