03.08.2011
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” ~Mahatma Ghandi~ The team was up and at
03.08.2011
What a privilege to meet and work with the families today, our first day “on the job.” We drove to the community of San Salvdador el Verde where they had a welcoming ceremony for us on the site of one of the houses. We tried our Spanish and at least one of them–the wife of
03.07.2011
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~PAnais Nin~ The team spent a couple of hours on “blue bayou” today. Okay it wasn’t blue, but it was a bayou, which we learned from our guide means, “a slow-moving body of water.” Our Honey Island Swamp Tour afforded the team
03.07.2011
Written by Caitlin Cohn So today we learned a few valuable lessons of trip planning, and of ourselves. Perhaps the two most important lessons were that of flexibility and of emotional intelligence. The first lesson we learned through the fact that our tentative schedule was changed, granted that’s the reason it’s called “tentative.” But, whether
03.07.2011
Written by Miriam Kamya First I would like to say that I love this time! We all get along and laugh together so well. We have faced our struggles like any normal team would. But, I think we pushed past our obstacles. I am really excited to see what is next in our journey as
03.07.2011
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~Oliver Wendall Holmes~ The team took a 2-hour motor coach tour of New Orleans today learning a lot of fascinating history of this diverse city. It included a stop at an above-ground cemetery, passing by the home of
03.07.2011
Our arrival to San Francisco yesterday was fairly smooth. After unpacking we navigated our way to Chinatown for dinner. As the multiple time zones and long day of commuting left the team exhausted most of the team went straight to bed after dinner. However, the morning of day two had a different energy – despite
03.07.2011
Today was our free day and we went and began our adventure by taking pictures in a beautiful, luscious plaza. After enjoying the fountains and greenery there, we walked to the market. It was a wonderful, very exciting experience. There were so many beautifully made things there; all kinds of hand carved wooden figurines, eclectic
03.07.2011
Mexico lindo y querido! Wow. How or where to start? Every aspect of this first day has been awesome, amazing, stupendous, esplendido, fabuloso, grandioso, etc. Today two of my major traveling dreams have come true and what a better way to experience it than with “mis amigos” de ASB. Today we took a tour of
03.07.2011
Yesterday was a LONG day of travelling. After staying up the entire night and chugging the biggest Monster energy drink that I could buy before heading to meet everyone on campus, I felt that I was ready to go. We got to the airport and it really began to sink in with everyone just how
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