For our second week in Hopi we have been working more with Hopi Tutskwa (http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1678&Itemid=33) on helping to build the cob home for Lillian’s mother Serena. The walls are going up quickly, especially after we put in the window frames. This past weekend we got the opportunity to visit Roberto and visit his farm where he is doing the permaculture work through the Black Mesa Water Coalition. (http://www.blackmesawatercoalition.org/) We took… Read More
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Jaiho!
Updates updates!! I’m sure you’re all wondering why half of our group is now bald, how we’re all coping without our lovely Graham, and where we are in the world now that we’re no longer stationed in McLeod.
I’ll start with the hair:
Lilly, Graham, Jake, and I (Margaret) have shaved our heads. Lilly was the initiator of this madness, and her excitement to have no hair rippled through the… Read More
Chang Mai to Chang Rai
Hey everybody! We just finished our home-stays and language classes so we’re on to our next adventure. Currently we are back in Chang Mai, exploring the city, food markets, and attending a Monk Chat. Tomorrow we plan on going white water rafting on some class 4 rapids so I hope everyone can swim!! We leave Chang Mai in a couple days and go to Chang Rai where we go on… Read More
Deer Park visit
The mighty Shiva group has left the Deer Park Institute in Bir, after a few meditative days in this peaceful Tibetan colony. Here the group has learned from the Buddhist and Jain traditions in a retreat setting. We wish them traveling mercies as they head onward to new adventures. Carpe Diem also says a fond and respectful goodbye to Graham, who has chosen to leave the program to remain in… Read More
News from the Mufindi Highlands!
The Carpe Diem Africa Group has spent the week volunteering at
Mufindi Children’s Village. The activities the group participated in
were building a playground with materials we gathered from the area.
We cut down some heavy trees and carried them approximately three
hundred yards to the work site. We volunteered at the care and
treatment clinic that supports people living with HIV or AIDS. It was
about a four mile… Read More
Final Post from Fiji
Hello faithful blog followers!
This is Jamo from Michigan here, updating you all on our final week in Rabulu and last few days in Fiji. We spent our 2nd week in Rabulu continuing to work on the cement pathway which we unfortunately did not finish due to the rainy conditions. On the morning of the 4th we were given a tour of the Fiji water plant which is only a… Read More
Nothing says welcome to Guatemala like a baby scorpion in your bathroom!
Hola friends and family,
Apologies all around for the long silence. Don´t worry I´m about to send lots of info and pictures your way to make up for it!
The remainder of our time in Pasac was a whirl of fun times. Most days included group meals, playing with the village children and a lot of rain. We learned about how far Pasac has come through the help of Roots… Read More
Broken Vans & 5 Star Resorts
Hey yall. It´s been a trying journey to Antigua but we finally made it. We were in the car from San Andres for about 16 hours yesterday. First 2 bridges had construction and we couldn´t pass, so we detoured a few hours, which brought us back to Coban for lunch, after which our van´s radiator overheated. After fixing it using our drinking water we traveled onward until the condition of… Read More
Tikal/San Andres
Hey everybody! Our first day in San Andres we traveled to the Mayan ruins of Tikal. They were extremely impressive and massive. We saw a lot of unique animals and plants during our hike there. This was also the site of where they filmed Star Wars (the ewok settlement.) The best part was climbing the highest temple in Tikal. From the top we could see the expanse of the jungle… Read More
What’s up from Thailand!
Hey all you carpe diem students and/or followers,
This is Chris here with all the details on the SE Asia trip so far. So we have now been in SE Asia (Thailand to be exact) for 2 weeks exacly. Crazy right?!?! It’s funny because it feels like it’s been atleast a month because of all the wicked awesome things we have been doing so far. Some examples of our adventures… Read More
Ali Chishi!
For the last ten days we have been living in Achupallas. Achuapallas is a rural village located about 40 minutes from Otavallo. Many of the people there speak Keshwa, the indigenious language, but much of the younger generations now speak spanish. The people who live there are mostly subsistance farmers, and much of our diet while there consisted of potatoe and rice soup.
We spent our days doing work in… Read More
Douces McLeod
Hello all! Lily here writing from an Internet Cafe in McLeod Ganj. We have had a wonderful introduction to typical India hodgepodge of power outages and holidays and I think are all learning to REALLY be gumby.
Almost immediately after we returned from our trek we were picked up by our home stay families to begin our wonderful cultural exchange. We have been placed in such different home stay experiences!… Read More
Enjoying Fiji Time
Hi, everyone! Lucy here (from an internet cafe in Tavua) to update you on our latest adventures!
We arrived in Rabulu (the location of our two week home-stay) last Monday after three bus rides that totaled about five hours of travel. Luckily, once we arrived in the village, we were greeted with music and warmth, as well as a special “cava ceremony” where we got introduced to the… Read More
Currently in Flores
We arrived in the Isla de Flores, Guatemala yesterday in the afternoon. We found a hostile looking into the lake and happen to see multiple rainbows that evening. Around 6:30pm, the group grabbed dinner and for dessert, went for ice cream afterwards. This morning, a few of us did yoga and got breakfast at 8am. We had a few hours of free time afterwards before heading to San Andres for… Read More
Headed to the orphanage
About to be out of touch until around the 9th or 10th, hard to say for sure! Kiswahili lessons were so great and so helpful, we had some really amazing teachers. but we wrapped all that up on friday and will be heading to the orphanage tomorrow morning. Another long day of travels, but were all really looking forward to be getting out there!… Read More
Sarah’s Turn to Blog Here in Sikkim!
Hey this is Sarah! This week we had the amazing opportunity to spend time at Pangthang Junior High! We spent time with the students teaching them some of our western games such as Bob the Weasel, Ninja and Red Light/Green Light. The students got a chance to practice their English to interact with our group members. The students were awesome and caught on really quickly to the rules. They were… Read More
The First 8 Days!!!
Hello everyone! Sorry we haven´t been able to blog as we have had an eventful start to our trip. We started orientation in Coban, Guatemala where we got the chance to get to know each other as well as immerse ourselves into the central american culture. We stayed at an excellent hostel that should be famous for their pancakes and coffee. Our stay there was a wonderful way to begin… Read More
Updates from the Himalayan Foothills
Namste from Sikkim,
Thanks to all that are following the blog and posting comments. We will continue to leave the storytelling to our fearless crew of Alice, Ellen, Sarah, Tully, Kaila, and Sterling. However, we did want to chime in with a couple of quick updates.
First, word of landslides and road closures in Sikkim may or may not have made the news in the States. In any case, we… Read More