i´m so excited! i´ve been feeling pretty useless in my job lately just cuz therre´s already a lot of people there, but yesterday i went with a friend from belgium to his work, and so now I´m going to change and start working therre. It´s this orphanage for boys of the street, and hororrendously poor... I´m going to be teaching math and reading and ( Read more... )

me encanta con mi vida ahorita ( Read more... )

i am in guayaquil now ( Read more... )

hello everybody!!!! i am here in quito, we have been staying at this campamento on the outskirts of the city, and for the first two days we had orientation and now we are having spanish lessons ALL DAY LONG. i love our group, there are 16 of us and we have already bonded and are dreading when we all have to separate. mostly everybody is european ( Read more... )

we've been staying at the lambies and besides the past few days where i've felt weird, it's been fun. people are always over here and it's fun cuz my house has never been the house where people hang out at. u know what i mean, like how in every group or pair there's always a house that like ur 'base ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for Ecuador on July 23rd!!!!!!! And Wal Mart is going to give me $1000, so I only have $1800 to go. I only have like 10 days to get it, but oh well. I just wish I knew spanish ( Read more... )

ahh!!!!!!! 18 is going to be the best year of my life i decided. i came full cirlce today, instead of being in a wheel chair, i was pushing somebody else in a wheelchair!!!!!!!!! saturday was wonderful!!! i woke up early, excercised, went for my first real bike ride since being sick, then went to the lake with brook-a aka Bud, then we dressed up, ( Read more... )

i just wanted to thank everybody for being so nice. u all r really wonderful friends, and I'm sorry that I don't really have that ability anymore. someday i will try and make it up to all of u. thank u so much.

Ok, amanda and jill "tagged" me to say 10 things that make me happy ( Read more... )

i went surfing yesterday!!! it's pretty tough, i need to get back into shape before next time. and it was the first time in my life i've ever worn a wet suit. they are the best inventions ever! hanging out with whittney was a lot of fun, she's doing better now, and i'm hoping things will start "looking up" for her ( Read more... )