First off i would like to apologize for the delay in this posting. I attempted to finish it before our Outback excursion but now here i am. This is the entry for Team Awesome, which includes Krysten, Caroline, Ruby, Avery, Dan and Myself (Matt). After getting picked up in Brisbane, we headed to our destination of Tenterfield, New South Wales. Since Queensland (where Brisbane is) doesnt use daylight savings time,… Read More
Hola mi famila y amigos. this has been one fun rest period (relatively speaking) from working everyday. As Megan has said we have safely returned from the jungle. On Wednesday after we reached our hotel, after picking up our things from John’s and then dropping off our laundry many of us became reacquainted with a computer and or our beds in our hostel, I know I did. Thursday was our… Read More
After rafting we hopped right back into our service work, which was, as always, filled with amazing people and loads of inspiration. The first morning we got to tour the Soft Power headquarters which included a library, a clinic, a theater, one of the only biogas projects in the area and many other art projects that tie in with the typical Ugandan school curriculum. The added creativity is always great… Read More
Hayden and Dylan wishing everyone at home a Happy Thanksgiving. It has been a very pensive week here in Australia as we have been staying at the Chenrezig Buddhist retreat center. Before arrival we got a quick briefing of customs and practices of buddism and the expected behavior while attending the retreat, which includes living alongside spiders which has proven to be quite a challenge for some. It also began… Read More
Here we were, staring at the beautiful stretch of river commonly known as the Nile. Personally, if you told me a few years ago that I would see the Nile river, I would’ve questioned you.
We arrived hungry at the site where we would start the course. To our pleasant surprise, there was an array of snacks for our eating pleasure. With full tummies, we met our guides and took… Read More
We’re in Vietnam! I think the border crossing was a great foreshadow for the week to come; it was relaxing and easy.
After the bus ride across the border, we rode right in to Ho Chi Minh City. There we had an evening to explore the city on our own. A lot of us tried some staple Vietnamese food: pho and Vietnamese coffee. Pho, pronounced fuh, is a noodle soup… Read More
Bir
Nov 15-21:
Buddhist Teachings, discussion, films
pooja ritual at Chokling Monastery
Movies: The Story of Stuff, 10 Questions with the Dalai Lama, Thich Naht Hahn film about peace
Hike to Sherabling Monastery
Hike to Upper Bir village, waterfall
working in Craftshop with my man Trilockk
Went to an incense factory
Talk with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (The coolest cave lady)
Thoughts
Ole:”Self is the problem not the solution”
Cobie: “Meditation… Read More
Hola familia y amigos 🙂 Once again it is Megan blogging from Cusco. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! It’s crazy this will all be over in two weeks. I hope my family is ready to deal with some sucio laundry and backpack que huele malo.
Good news: we survived the selva! Volunteering with Robin at Camino Verde was awesome. Our days consisted of waking up at 5:40am, eating breakfast at 6am,… Read More
HEY!
Sup? we´re in Costa Rica! We spent the last week in beautiful San Juan Del Sur, at Playa Madera. We stayed at a sweet ec0-art hostel called Parque Maderas, which is owned and run by Tyler, Ethan´s childhood friend. Tyler´s dream was to build the hostel right on the ocean and it is one of the coolest places that we have been so far. We felt really at home… Read More
Namaste,
We have just arrived in Rishikesh last night, and have only a few hours of internet, phone, and food stock-up time before we check in at the ashram in Pulchati! We’ll be on a pretty rigid schedule which includes yoga, meditation, cleaning the ashram, and discussion periods. The thing which our group has been talking about the most is the fact that this week is a silent retreat. There… Read More
Hello everyone !
For our last day in Cambodia we visited S21 and the Killing feilds. S21 was formerly a high school that was transformed into a prision during the Kemer Rouge. It now serves as a genocide musem. I think our group could agree that it was one of the more intense places that we have visited. S21 is full of jail cells, interrogation rooms, and tourture instruments that… Read More
After a blissful and refreshing week chanting mantras and grasping at the deepest meanings of our conciousness we have reentered the “real world”.
Brisbane welcomed us with opportunities galore however we had a date with the Conservation Volunteers Australia. Our group was divided in half to work on two seperate projects. My group included myself, Greta, Allistair, Trent, Casey, Francesca, and Katie (so if youre child or friend or aquaintence… Read More
¡Hola familias! Many apologies for the delay in updates. Free travel was a great experience for all of us as we chose what adventures to embark on, whether it was chilling by beautiful natural springs, or speeding down a volcano on a sled!
We started the week off with an extra day in León, three of us attending an extra day of Spanish school while the rest headed to the… Read More
Hey everybody, it’s Annie and Blair from ALICE SPRINGS! We just finished up our week long bus tour with Groovy Grape through the Australian Outback! Last Monday our tour guide, Steve, picked us up at 6:45 AM from the YHA. We had a long day on the bus and visited a cave with Aboriginal art inside. That night we stayed in Angorichina Village in the Flinders Ranges, a location soliders… Read More
SEE-SA-DAI! That means hello/hi in Khmer (one of the few words we know).
After our lavish stay at the hotel in Battambang, we drove less than 10 minutes outside of the city to the Street Families Center. The scenery changed drastically within those few minutes from nice hotels and paved roads, to wooden houses on stilts to dirt roads. We recieved loads of loud “HELLO’s” from little children that were… Read More
Hi everybody,
Here is how our travel went from Rishikesh to Amritsar. We left Rishikesh at
10:30 from our relaxing hotel with great yack cheese sandwiches and took a bus to a train stop. We got on a train then
transferred to another train. I remember saying this is going to be an easy
travel day but, there is no such thing as an easy travel day in India. When… Read More
We’ve made it to Rajasthan! After finishing our volunteer work at the Mother Teresa House in Calcutta, we boarded a flight to Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, aka The Pink City…more like the the Terracotta City. We did a short homestay, visited the Amber Fort, and celebrated the most important of births…Coby’s! It was a very auspicious day to celebrate one’s birth, considering the fact that it was 11/11/11. Next,… Read More
Hola Friends and Family-
Last week we all arrived safetly in Nicaragua after a long and tiring day of traveling. We were quickly greeted at the airport by Rolando, the director of our new spanish school. After a 2 hr bus ride into Leon we were dropped off in pairs for our new and final homestays!
The next day we jumped right into school, half the group in the mornings… Read More
Chao Cusco! We leave for the AMAZON tomorrow morning for ten days, yay! We will be working on a volunteer reforestation project and living in the jungle.
Cusco the past two weeks has been amazing and many of us have felt so at home here but we are stoked for a change of scenery.
Our two weeks of spanish practice and grammer flew by, and we were sad to leave… Read More
