Kamwene friends and family! We are back in Iringa town and staying at a very nice hotel. Last week we arrived with open hearts and minds to Ohana Amani’s beautiful home and organic garden. We had a fantastically fun time hanging out with the sisters Curry and Chevy, and their friends Shannon, Hannah, and Anna-Sophia. They are some powerful ladies who inspired all of us. We had a glamorous camp… Read More
Hello There, Duncan here!
So we just had an awesome week starting in Kampala and ending in Kabale. In Kampala the first night back from Rhino Fund Uganda, we saw a pretty cool open mic drumming/concert night at the National Theater. The next day Becca and Becky got some pretty sick looking dreadlocks, Fred, Lilly, Mia, Natalie, and myself went touring around the local market and visited the National Mosque.… Read More
Heeeeyy, it’s Amy checking in. As I’m sure all of you know, we have made our way from Fiji to New Zealand and can I just say how obsessed I am with this country. We started our trip in the wondrous city of Auckland. It’s beautiful and wonderful and I’m moving here once the trip is over. Sorry mom. Gracie and I spent most of the time shopping, it was… Read More
Our brains do not cook as she planned. (It’s really just fry bread)
Roberto cleans out the corn with the wind.
Roberto asks us to help take down an old clay oven.
Tom goes in for the devastating strike.
Burning juniper branches to create ash for adding to corn soup
to make it more nutritious.
Fun at Monument Valley.
On the San Juan River:
While getting a flat tire… Read More
Hey everyone!
As was highlighted in previous blog posts, our journey in Fiji has come to an end and we have now begun our New Zealand adventure! After a brief two day stay in Auckland, we were relocated to the Kotare Trust Marae in Wellsford. A Marae is a place for Maori families to share their culture and heritage amongst themselves and visitors who are interested. We were greeted warmly… Read More
Hey there adoring fans,
After gorging ourselves the past week on Coconut cookies, Galak (aka – greatest vanilla butter cookie sandwiches ever), and every other pre-packaged treat we could find, a gross dull stomach ache began to seep into the group. Why can’t we avoid these gelatenous treats, these potato chips, these short-sighted hunger solutions? Eventually, some group members said “Enough,” and a running bet began to see who can… Read More
Here’s the dance we did as a goodbye:
From Carpe
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(I have no idea if either link works since the computers are too slow to load the video)… Read More
Day: October 4th, 2013
Location: The city of Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador
Activities: Canyoneering and saying goodbye
Hello friends and family, and welcome to the first of several time traveller’s logs! We will be experiencing the past lives of us Carpe Students, but don’t worry, our presence won’t interfere with the space time continuum.
First thing we do today is go to an adventure clinic, where we suit up for our… Read More
Part of me is wishing I could say Bula to all of you right now, but I am in New Zealand, yet to learn the Maori word for hello. So, try to imagine a Kiwi accent on my Hello! It has been full of twists and turns here for the Walkabout group, but now we have wind back in our sails and are diving fully into this ocean of an… Read More
Hey guys, Ben here with a quick update on our last week and a half!
As the sun beat down, we hopped aboard the old, rustic ferry that would shuttle us to the island of Omotepe. Although the boat leaned significantly to one side and was packed with both people and random junk, the ride was rather relaxing and uneventful. The boat ride provided a nice break from driving in… Read More
On behalf of my fellow walkabouters I think I can safely say that we’re going to make the best of our new group arangements and carry of with our heads high and our hopes higher. But before we move foward with our journey I want to take a minute to step back and reflect on our time spent in Vatusekiyaswa. Going into the homestay I don’t think anyone expected to… Read More
Hello friends and family of the MAYA group! We´ve taken a bit of a vacation from blogging as we were trekking from Xela to San Juan over the course of three days and two nights. We departed form Xela by bus and were dropped off in a small village about half an hour outside the city. The first day was by far the most difficult. We climbed up steep mountain… Read More
We have officially left the cloud forest community of Pucara, and are residing in Mompiche, a beach town, before our exodus to Peru. Over the next week or so we will be making blog posts detailing what we did in the “lost weeks”.
In Pucara, we worked with the resident Carpe Contact, Pete, who educated us on sustainable agriculture and reducing our carbon footprint.
The entire group with Petes property… Read More
Hi again!
We have just wrapped up our week at Pun Pun Organic Farm, which is located around an hour outside of Chiang Mai. Overall we all had a wonderful time. The farm itself was beautiful. It was green and lush, and in the distance massive haze-covered mountains stretched as far as the eye could see. Living conditions were rustic but comfortable; the students all were living in a treehouse-like… Read More
Holy cow how the days have been flying! Our stay in Vatusekiyasawa, Fiji was a beautiul and challenging experience. More accounts from the group to come, but wanted to share some pictures below. Late Thursday night we arrived into Auckland and after many obstacles, such as missing luggage, the strictest bio contamination regulations in the world, and uncooperative airport ATMS, Tera (our transport captain for the week) landed us an… Read More
Namaste my fellow Americans.
Evangeline here (I’m the New Yorker that lacks the fun accent and has a confusing other identity known as “Eva”), this week I get the honor of sharing our latest adventures with you! Every week the Carpe students rotate specific roles and this week I’m the blogger! Other roles include “hot wheels”(responsible for our transportation), “cribs”(our housing), “gratitude”(expressing thanks to all our contacts along the journey),… Read More
So after three days of being in Bodhgaya, the place where the Buddha received enlightenment, we began our crazy journey to Calcutta. It was not an easy journey to say the least. We were wait listed for seats for the train to Calcutta, which we luckily did make it on; but we had to sleep two to a sleeper bunk on an overnight train. We were suppose to board our… Read More
Bula from Fiji,
Our group’s stay in beautiful Fiji is coming to a close today. We spent the last two weeks in the friendly village of Rewasa near the town of Rakiraki on the north side of Viti Levu island. Our experiences inside the village will always and forever be remembered as a time where two cultures were able to share and take from one an other. The group’s time… Read More
Hey everyone!
We just spent our last few days in the village this week and headed out for our free travel in Nadi this past Wednesday morning. We are now spending some time at a resort in Nadi and have a very early wake up call tomorrow morning to fly out to Auckland! All of us are very excited for a change of scenery but will never forget our beautiful… Read More
I never thought I’d be back in school so soon, but who would’ve expected a school where you could swing in a hamock while sipping coffee in an outdoor classroom? The last two weeks have been nothing but amazing.
Throughout the remainder of our time in Matagalpa the group continued to participate in activities organized by the language school. We visited an organization called Agentes de Cambio (Agents of… Read More
