2019-02-21
I remember being dropped off intomy host family six months back not knowing a single word of Spanish. I was soworried on how I was going to be able to communicate if I can’t speak thelanguage. I started my first month here conversing by using only google translate.It was so stressful and difficult. I would...
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Since I can remember, I’ve been surrounded by various languages. Some of them I learned to speak, others just to recognize in a crowded room of people. As a result of being exposed to languages at an early age, for some of the ones that I speak I don’t even remember learning them, such as...
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2019-02-20
My time here has been extremely special and positively changed me as a person and possibly my favorite part of the time here has been being able to share what I have been experiencing with my family who have come to visit. Being able to show them that “their baby” was able to come to...
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I’m discovering more about myself than I thought. One of the biggest complaints that we’ve heard from #WordPress beginners about the post editor is that it cannot spellcheck. This is why some users prefer to create their initial drafts using desktop apps like Microsoft Word.
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2019-02-19
*November* *Otavalo Train Station* [image: IMG_3768.jpg] In the tourism office I worked in they were doing a small advertisement film campaign. They needed a model to play an indigenous Otavaleña woman to pray at the two churches in Otavalo. It took me about five times to get the Son Father and Holy spirit action correct,...
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2019-02-19
*A picture says a 1000 words, and considering I haven’t posted a blog in a while, I thought I’d share 3 pictures from each month up until now. If I’ve done the maths correctly that’s about 18,000 words. So that should put me in a good place. Enjoy.* *September* *San Rafel* [image: IMG_3112 2.jpg] This...
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2019-02-19
I started off this gap year with a blog post. The night before I left for Brazil, I rushed to put together a couple paragraphs on how excited I was for this year in order to meet the requirement of having at least one blog post written before arriving in-country. While it was written in...
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