2011-12-21
If you haven’t read the first two parts to this adventure, be sure to do so before reading Part 3! Part 1 can be found at http://archive.globalcitizenyear.org/2011/12/39-hours-pt-1/ and Part 2 can be found at http://archive.globalcitizenyear.org/2011/12/39-hours-pt-2/. Friday, 4:00 p.m., one kilometer from the edge of Bosque Colonso I’m running on empty. Every step takes all the effort I can...
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2011-12-16
Bilat is my three year old cousin. We’ve recently adopted him and his 5 year old sister into our family because his mother is mentally ill and left him to his father, who chose not to raise his two kids. The kids here play rough, and quite often fight rough. Bilat, being the youngest, is...
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2011-12-15
Global Citizen Year provides Fellows with complete, succinct and crucial preparation prior to placing us in the field. Upon arrival in Senegal I felt well equipped to handle the inevitable culture shock – I was ready to face my immersion with an open mind and a compassionate heart, and with no expectations. However, nothing...
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2011-12-14
If you haven’t yet read the first part of this adventure, be sure to do so before reading this blog. It might make a bit more sense! http://archive.globalcitizenyear.org/2011/12/39-hours-pt-1/ Thursday, 7:00 p.m., the abandoned ranchito Wilson and I wake to the roof being violently blown off the lean-to. The world is a whirlwind of insanity; my clothes...
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2011-12-13
I am amazed by how much I feel at home here in Atacapi. The week I spent in Quito was fun but I missed my family so much. I was wondering how they were doing and wanted to know how the baby was because my parents said that the other children had spent months in...
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2011-12-13
As likely EVERY ONE of you other Fellows has been experiencing this month, the holiday season is not a very easy time to be this far away from home. I have missed home the whole time I have been gone, but this time of year brings just about as much “saudade”(a...
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2011-12-12
She lies flat as a board and is too skinny Her eyes The nurse has no words for them Buen expresivos, she settles on. Wide and bright They look as though They seek to be separate from her too-small face, Where her cheeks have sunken in, Already at age 7. And her lips are purple,...
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