2017-09-15
Welcome to Ecuador! To become acquainted with your new home, we are going to start by placing you in an isolated area for four days, starting Thursday, September 7th. It is a large compound – a spiritual retreat center – called San Patricio. The area is surrounded by trees and mountains and there is a...
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2017-09-15
Full disclosure: my first official blog of the program has now been deleted, rewritten, deleted again, rewritten a few more times, and now graphed haphazardly. In the interest of full honesty, I would like to include bits of what I’ve written to show the full scope of my time and subsequent emotions. However, I’m afraid...
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2017-09-15
I have always been baffled at how you can only live an experience once, and after that it will never again be the unknown. This concepts daunts me as I live in a many times described “experience of a lifetime” because half of me knows that I must soak up every. single. second. while the...
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What is a name? Back home, my name is my sense of belonging. It’s what my friends call me, How my parents beckon my presence, How teachers measure my attendance. How trivial is a name? My friends often misspeak my name, My parents confuse it with a sibling’s My teachers skip it all together. In...
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2017-09-13
Yesterday in Quito, our entire cohort found out where in Ecuador we would be spending our next seven months, and let's just say we were all pretty nervous. I went into this process ready to accept whatever I was given and make the most out of it. Obviously I had an idea of my dream...
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Little by Little As the sun rises and birds start to chirp the coffee starts to brew, my day starts with a brand new place and new people. I can feel my heart rushing with excitement and nervousness. As I lift my head off the pillow my mind starts to rush with thoughts. Then I remember...
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2017-09-13
As day three of my new life comes to an end, I begin to reflect on my days in Brazil and while my time has been short here I have learned many things. There are small cultural differences such as the TV always being on, eating four meals a day; lunch being the largest, most...
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