2018-04-03
I had the pleasure of having Nube as my host mom during my time here. I lived with her, her husband and two children. She does not work right now, instead caring for her two kids Lisseth, aged 17 and Esteban, aged 12, and her nephew Mathew, aged 2. ——————————————————————————————————————– I was 19 when I...
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2018-04-03
Maria Brito was my coworker at El Centro Gernontologico. We worked in an elderly home together in the center of Sigsig. ——————————————————————————————- . When I was 22, I decided to move to the United States. I had two children already, aged 4 and 5. I tried to get a visa, but they just told me...
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2018-04-03
Diego Calle works in the government offices of Sigsig. He is also one of the supervisors for my project, and will be putting the stories and photos of my interviewees in a gallery to hang in Sigsig. ———————————————————————————————- My father immigrated to the United States when I was 9 years old. He moved to New...
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As a requirement for Global Citizen Year, all fellows must complete a Final Community Project. The purpose of this project is to give something back to the community that you have lived in for the past 7 months. When I first began to consider what I could do for my project, I was at...
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2018-04-03
The question that has been circling my mind for the last three weeks. How do I say goodbye? How do I say goodbye to the family that opened their hearts and homes to let me in? My sisters that are so incredibly obnoxious, extra, and occasionally bratty that it feels like I’m in an episode...
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2018-04-03
Here are some photos I took from a beach trip to Praia Ingleses in the north of Florianopolis. It was quite a cloudy day but there were waves to surf and ample time to play some soccer with the host cousins. The best part about cloudy days at the beach is that there is hardly...
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