So girl in my organization broke down and started crying because of how poor people are the lack of staples like cooking oil and sugar (stamples to this diet) and another person from my organization comforted her and started to empathize that if she sees one more woman carrying wood shes going to burst and I am starting to feel like, am I soo ( Read more... )

I have more entries on my computer which is in my town but since I do not have internet argh! This will have to do for now. Hoping by the time I get back I will have interent ( Read more... )

So I had this cricket. I live on a compound owned by the local restaurant owner and run by her family. She and her family leave in shifts starting from 430 in the morning to 6 and return home at 11 o'clock to midnight. This includes her two daughters and two grandchildren; a 11 year old and 9 year old. This compound is the biggest and nicest ( Read more... )

So I live in a small yellow room with no right angles in the middle of the African Jungle. Working in a field I don't know anything about in a language i have never heard of. I don't know how I got here but since I am here I smile and fudge it till I own it. I don't have a computer and this blog will be developing little by little till i figure out ( Read more... )

So its Christmas and I am in the this crazy place there are 20 foriegners congragrated around a cardboard Christmas tree square snowflakes, that a Californian made (thanks Johnny), and Christmas stockings that up until now I had been using as pot holders. We are drinking random concoctions listing to hipster versions of Christmas Carols and wishing ( Read more... )

Okay so I am now in a foriegn country that I am not going to name and please don't name if you guess. I say this as this country regularly checks blogs reads them and will kick you out of country if they don't like what you are saying (not that I intend too but I'd rather not be watched). Also I am working for an organization that regularly checks ( Read more... )

I was walking with my kids (that i teach) around the school and it was a perfect autumn day and one of my only kids who isn't autisic but is simply mentally retarted and i were walking side be side and when we rounded a corner the wind blew with a huge gust and both him and i just relished in the breeze so i set out to find a perfect poem or quote ( Read more... )

Well lets start with my class cause really that was the least involved subject ( Read more... )

Motivation ( Read more... )

“They say I am liberal because I believe in the conservation of rights as granted by the constitution of the United States, but by definition does that not mean I am conservative?”

National ACLU Director Anthony Romero

Two guys after class:

Guy one: What are you?

Guy two: I am a libertarian.

Guy one: Oh wow your more left than I am. You really are a ( Read more... )