After saying our last goodbyes in battambang we backed up and headed to Siem Reap. Seven hours of travel by boat and we arrived at our new home, Nita Villa, for a couple days. Our first day was spent touring a silk farm and learning the meticulous process of silk weaving, all the way from silk worm to silk shirt. Later that day we also got to see some stone… Read More
Hello everyone Kate and Lihi here… The past week has been full of adventure, hard work, and mzungus. Early sunday morning we left Kampala and traveled to Jinja by bus. We arrived at Adrift Hostel surprised to see so many mzungus (white people). We were split into two different groups for rafting on the White Nile River. Kate was with Curry, Kevin, Matt, Aura, Jessie, Clairen and a South African… Read More
Greeting from la familia,I´m going to begin this blog with an apology for my spelling. I have no spellcheck, and it shows throughout the blog. After our “2” hour bus ride through the Cloud Forest, we spent the night in a comfortable hostel in the jungle town of Pilcotambo. As we stepped off the bus we could immediatly feel the difference in the air and temperature. In the mountains, the… Read More
hello devoted readers!hope all is going well at your end. My apologies for the blog coming so late.After our stay in the sleepy town of Darjeeling, we headed off to Gangtok in a hired seven passenger jeep. After a long 6 hours of travel which included stopping for meals, permits and snack breaks, finally made it to our destination. We then made our way down to the main strip of… Read More
Zik here one last time, happy to report that Kevin DIDN’T tell me a bold faced lie about having posted to the blog when we were back in Kampala. As it turned out, he saw a “Posted Successfully” message and thought he was done. I didn’t actually believed he would have intentionally deceived me anyway, so when several of his teammates vouched for him, the “honesty” part of the meeting… Read More
We left the village of Nananu on September 28th (day 16). Little did we know we’d be leaving behind so much of our hearts. Nananu became a home away from home. We became a part of a community with inspiring family values and work ethic. Everyone in the village has a role and every plays their part without hesitation, without complaint. Together, they would support one another, look after the… Read More
Hey all! I get to be the first one to post about our white water rafting day. I loved it. Honest and truly. Zik kept on laughing on me…because I just had this grin plastered to my face for the first three hours. I dunno how they’re gonna top this adventure…but it was just gloriously awesome to swim and raft and (foreshadowing here!) get washed away in rapids in the… Read More
Hi everyone! We arived in Kampala about two weeks ago eager to start working on a project. We moved to Fort Portal and worked at a orphanage through YES! organization building a cow pen and a chicken coop. It was so amazing to see how much they appreciated our work. We stayed in quiet Fort Portal for about ten days. I’m pretty sure everyone will agree that we liked Fort… Read More
Hey y’all everyone has basically said everything, I just have a few things to add. Every one’s great and this is a wonderful experience, and everyone is safe. Working in Fort Portal was a growing experience and we hope to grow even more!!! I miss you mom and dad and the fam. times up and i got to go. goodbye everyone!!… Read More
Hey everyone!I have no idea what I can say that everyone else hasn’t already said. We got back to Kampala yesterday and since that is where we began it kinda felt like coming home. Then I realized we still have a couple more months here. I know I speak for everyone when I say that we’re excited for those months. We had a great time building and actually getting to… Read More
hello everyone i am sorry that my last post for some reason did not post. i logged on and clicked publish post and it said successfully posted. i tried to update you on the projects that we were doing and that we were alright. again i am very sorry for the inconvenience. Dear parents i’m sorry you had to hear that we are all lazy irresponsible children from our leaders… Read More
Hey everyone! Sorry it’s been so long since we’ve posted.. It’s hard to get internet here… especially since we didn’t have much access in Fort Portal. Well anyways… we’re back in Kampala after being in Fort Portal for a while. Fort Portal was beautiful. It was so green and it had the most amazing sky. We stayed at YES hostel (Youth Encouragement Services) hosted by Carol Adams, an American who… Read More
Hey everyone,
Everything is great here, we are all having fun.As everyone else said before we just came back from Fort Portal which was fun and especially much more quiet.We now have a free day in Kampala before going to Jinja. Hopefully it will be fun as well.… Read More
hola a todos..ya estamos de vuelta en Kampala..todo fenomenal! anyways..were doing great so far..last night Kevin and i tried posting something we wrote but apparently something went wrong and it never really got posted! sorry about that.. anyways..we were sayiung that Fort Portal was amazing..part of the group got to work at Roses(one of the girls that worked for Carol Adams)house building a chiken coop and the other half of… Read More
This will be my first post on the group blog! Hello everyone! We are all so sorry for not being able to keep the blog updated so far. The internet access in Fort Portal was very sketchy and most of us didnt even get much of a chance to check our personal emails. Thank you Backpackers Hostel in Kampala for having GREAT internet connection! 😀
Africa is incredible. I really… Read More
Yesterday we left the beautiful fort portal and came back to the still beautiful but grungy kampala. While still in Fort Portal we got to see Eddie ( a friend of currys) graduation gear before him, his girlfriend Nadja, and Curry went off to his graduation. It was his last day at mountain of the moons university! needless to say we were proud. Thankyou so much mom for sending money!… Read More
Dear Parents,
I apologize that your children have kept you in the dark for so long. Curry and I have asked them several times to update the blog, but for some reason they haven’t been able to do so yet.
To be fair, long work days (building a cow shed and chicken coop for AIDS orphans), limited internet connections, and frequent power outages made updating the blog from Fort Portal… Read More
Hey Hey Everyone!Since the last post more than not of us have been rather sick with the altitude and other maladies. Things at SECMOL have been going great, playing games and getting to know the students better. Today we came into Leh around 10 and visited the Tibetan Children’s Village (tibetchild.org). It’s a very beautiful clean campus they have set up to house, and educate ~2000 children in family units… Read More
We have left Poptun and moved to our second homestays in San Andres. The scenery has changed from dirt roads and rural housing, to near 90 degree paved streets and a lovely veiw of lake Peten Itza. Here is the follow up of our last remaining days in Poptun:
Our ditch digging was put to a hault after a query between a few local residences, whose homes were being flooded… Read More
