ok. so i have been in my site for a week. no doubt the hardest week that i will have to face. and it hasnt been a walk in the park, but i am through it. this weekend will be filled. next week i will be busier. soon will arrive festivities, the holidays, a visit from my dad...all things to look forward to when i feel i little lost. and by the ( Read more... )

so i arrived in Uspantan, Guatemala on friday. I guess you could say my head has been spinning since then. I miss my friends from training group. We are all scattered about now. I will see half of them over christmas, and all of them in march. but those dates seem a long way off. some how i need to make it through the next few weeks. i ( Read more... )

i'm not going to be able to come close to filling in whats been going on over the past weeks here in Guatemala, not even going to try right now because my time is short and the line behind me to use the internet is long ( Read more... )

hey guys. i'm in guatemala. its been a blast so far. I've been here four days and it's been new and exciting each day. the peace corps is such an easy way to integrate into a culture...they take care of everything while still letting you have your independence. though i do need to cut my hair, the folks at the peace corps have made that very ( Read more... )

The airport. Hardest goodbyes have been said. Last walks in silence around places that are familiar. I have one more weekend of familiarity, though VTech will not be the familiar place it became last year, but rather just another stop on the journey. Then the unknown ( Read more... )

so i'll be coming into blacksburg around 6 or 7pm on friday august 25. So make your reservations on my time early! Also I need a place to stay...so open couches please identify yourselves. And I need to get to the greyhound station rather early monday morning, so my really good friends should start volunteering now ;)

Alright, so I'm going to try to follow in Eric's illustrious example and write down a catalogue of my academic interests. (of course it's like 100 degrees here in chicago, so i may expire before i finish) Here it goes ( Read more... )

well its official. i have 33 more days in the country, then i'm leavin on a jet plane...as they say. its been a weird mix of emotions as i face towards this box on the calendar. for months (years) its been nothing but excitement. but as this becomes more real, the anxiety sets in. the questions start to poke their way into my head. questions ( Read more... )

well back from baja. well i've actually been back for a few days now, but just getting around to updating. Funny thing is that after 2 weeks of vacation, i have been really unmotivated to do anything the past few days...oh well ( Read more... )

well, I've been in chicago 2 weeks. technically not, because I spent this past long weekend in grand rapids. During which time I got to chill with friends and fam, get sunburned on the tops of my feet (not badly, though, they already feel better), and such things. It was fun. Then a brief two days in chicago, before taking off for Baja. Wanted ( Read more... )