2010-11-21
I’m living in a world I never thought was real. I’m surrounded by things that once were inhibitions in my life. I’m passing people on the street every day that you hear about on the news. I’m sitting on a crowded bus behind the boy having a seizure, next to the father holding rosary beads...
Read More2010-11-19
About three weeks ago, I made the long awaited transition to my new host family, who I will be living with for the next six months. I was overwhelmed by the suddenness of the transition that I had blown up to such large proportions in my mind ever since my acceptance to GCY. Minutes after my...
Read More2010-11-19
I´m working in the communications office with one of my advisors on the upstairs of the cultural center I volunteer at, when three women who are friends of my advisor enter and sit down. After my advisor introduces us, one of the women faces me and says something that sounds like ¨Howee toreeo.¨ My first...
Read More2010-11-17
A Sunday afternoon of soccer that I wanted to share with you guys:
Read More2010-11-16
Exactly one week ago, I was the first of the Brazil fellows to be placed. I´ve been living in Baixo Petroleo, in this vast aggregation of slanted houses with walls of cloth or wood or concrete that look like the tottering results of unsupervised Lego use. Home is a community built on a meter-thick concrete...
Read More2010-11-16
Every day I wake up at six in the morning to get ready for school where I help students improve their English. I teach at a small high school which has a total of no more than ninety students. When I get done eating breakfast I say good bye to my little siblings, Enoc and Sarita,...
Read More2010-11-15
I had been in this tiny indigenous community for less than a week when I arrived at the elementary school, eager to begin the first day of my apprenticeship. I was a little anxious about the fact that I hadn’t the slightest clue as to what I was going to be doing, but faithfully optimistic...
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