Written by Sam R. The homestay is officially over. While each day might have felt like an eternity, the two week period as a whole passed rapidly. The workdays were exhausting, but our final “Fiesta de Despedida” or Goodbye Party was a fantastic culmination to our stay. Emotions were palpable as we all realized that
Today we find ourselves on the twenty third day of our adventure here in Ecuador. We awoke to the light rain that seems to shower these lands every day and the realization that our time here in La Variente is drawing to a close. Our leader Daniel said something in the first days of our
Rusty nails, Rice, and Realizations. Read More »
Wow, it’s been an amazing ride so far. We are back in Arusha after an beautiful weekend at Mt Meru and a couple of spectacular weeks in Maji ya Chai. We had chance to reflect this past weekend and the students have all agreed that time has been flying by, they are really enjoying themselves,
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Posted by Jonah, group member Sunday was a day of rest spent with our families. It was a perfect dayto wash clothes, play with the children, and evolve the personalrelationship with the families. With the beautiful weather manyfamilies spent the day outside hiking, playing volleyball, or exploringnature. At three, we met as a group at
We just heard from Breezy who reports that the group has been working INCREDIBLY hard on their projects — typically eight hours a day. They have one of the bleachers fully completed now. Each day while most of the group has been working on their construction project, six students have been teaching English in the
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