2012-05-08
Hey everyone! Check out my capstone video. I’ve been using it as a tool to get people excited and interested about gap year programs like Global Citizen Year. It’s just a bunch of clips to show those watching how different and amazing my life was while I lived in Ecuador. If you have any questions...
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2012-04-19
Universality is a word I have truly connected to throughout this experience in Ecuador. As I boarded the plane to my new life back in August, I dreamed of making new friends and blending in easily into my Ecuadorian family but I never even imagined how deep the connections could be. While I feel at...
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2012-03-20
Check out my video blog about my Life In Zuleta, Ecuador to get a feel for what it’s like living in a small indigenous community in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador!
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2012-03-20
With only a month left before leaving the place that has become my home over the last six months, my feelings seem to be spread all over the place. The moment I had so longed for at the rough beginning is finally here, and now, I’m not so sure I want it to be. Naturally...
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2012-02-16
December for me was marked by three things: celebrations, coworkers, and cuy. CUY Cuy for the people who don’t know, is guinea pig. I ate cuy. I’m a great vegetarian, right? I figured I had to at least try this bizarre dish that is somewhat of a delicacy in...
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2011-11-17
Sometimes I look around and I can’t believe where I am. When I first moved to Zuleta, a small indigenous community in the Andes Mountains, I experienced a shock like nothing I had felt before. I couldn’t imagine how I could live for six more months with a shower that consisted of heating up water...
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“You’ve moved 12 times and you’re how old!?” That’s pretty much the general reaction I get when I try to explain why I still have moving boxes in my closet after living in my house for a year. I am from almost every little town just north of San Francisco. Although the population is under...
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