hey all sorry im late ! this week your informant is the lovely and ever dyslexic Ellen Anderson! sense the last blog post so many more adventures have been added to our grand epic, after spending 4 days trek up to Dzongri ! we left Sikkim and our luxurious home stay where we where thoroughly spoiled by Pemma and his wonderful family!! after a long and bumpy ride we found… Read More
Hello. It was with weak Spanish skills that I embarked on this trip, and it is with similarly ill-equipped blogging skills that I attempt to succinctly describe MAYA´s experiences over the past few days here in the wonderfully mystifying city of Xela. Forgive me if my entry lacks the common conventions of a travel blog and contains the occasional Canadian spelling irregularity.
Our Tuesday began with Spanish language classes… Read More
Hey everyone, Colin Martin here from the green country sides of New Zealand. We arrived in Auckland on the 10th and left bright and early this morning. While in Auckland we branched out and had a huge amount of experiences: some took a ferry to an island and hiked around for a day, while others took a look around the city and did some shopping in the opp shops(thrift stores),… Read More
Hello from New Zealand! We have made it safe and sound, despite all the stress of travel. We are so excited to be here, though we do miss our Fijian family terribly. Our last week in Nananu was wonderful: chock full of family time, kava, and mangoes. We spent our days continuing work on the community center (or doing the best we could, the Fijians bested us a bit), with… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Andresfor… Read More
