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Ultimos dias en el barco. El 13 tuve dia de lectura para estudiar. Me levante temprano despues de la serenata y luego del desayuno me recoste en una banca a ver el mar… Dormi por una hora, la siesta mas placida en mucho tiempo. Regrese a verles a mis queridos en la mesa de siempre por las mananas. Conversamos y luego comence a escribir los ultimos ensayos que tenia que entregar. Al terminar eso Sali otra vez a la banca y escribi otra historia. Es sobre un principe que era feliz pero pensaba que era infeliz… La posteare al final con la otra historia que escribi. Estudiar, leer, ir a la presentacion de mi amiga Jen que escribio un libro para ni~os para comprar uniformes, entre otros proyectos. Creo que una red social con una base de datos de NGOs y soluciones de comunidades es la solucion para alcanzar los objetivos del milenio. Por la noche tuvimos una cena formal y al salir de eso mientras seguia estudiando recibi un email. Querian que haga el discurso de convocacion (como de gr...

I felt it. The end is coming so as I sat down for breakfast I felt as though I should not leave the ship for the last port… Made plans with many people and just stayed. Joey, Meghan and I decided to go to the zoo together. I do not like zoos, never really had. Always thought it was cruel but we were told by the invited guest speaker that it is different. When we got into the tender (first port that we had done this) we found John who wanted to go cave tubing! We joined his plan. We went to cave branch and had the most amazing tour guide who was telling us about the limestone formations and the plants grown in the area. They have the Xata from which the green leaves are used dye the dollar bills and the bullhorn whose bark in a tea lowers blood pressure (mainly utilized when bitten by snake so venom wont spread). Going into the caves was breathtaking. The Mayans call it Xibalba, where you would go back into the underworld. It was quite a journey. It was explained to us as the path fo...

The setting was the union auditorium and there were 5 of us. I had brought my tucumba and we were singing around the piano. Imagine there is no heaven… at the top of our lungs. At the same time I was drawing. I wanted to capture the moment in the drawing but the smile in Joey’s face simply happened without my anticipation. It was the wavelength there. Went to sleep late and woke up to Guatemala. I went with a group going to Ak-tenamit to apply the $100 solution initiative that I wanted to understand in a better manner. We arrived to this small community of mainly Qeqchi speakers and a few Spanish speakers. I was again asked to translate. I love this roll because I am able to hear first hand and ask questions that sometimes I would not be able to ask if I were only a listener. Interestingly, the settlement was created by an outsider from the US whose company kept receiving applications from Mayans to work for him. After talking with a few of them, he decided to go to Guatemala and ...

(hubo un problema con el sistema y esto no se posteo a tiempo! Disculpenme! Todo esta ya escrito. Hoy lo comparto =) SPS. Golpe de Estado Tanto que paso antes de que llegaramos a Honduras… El dia antes de llegar al Puerto, mi mama adoptive de Peru me pidio que tradujera una clase para el professor Portillo, un historiador que vino representando a la Universidad Autonoma de Honduras. Lo hice y asi les conoci a el y a su hija, Itza, que se convirtieron en mi familia en Honduras. Tambien estuve de interprete por al noche cuando dio una introduccion historica y cultural de Honduras. Por la noche no los vi pero vaya que tuve una noche Hermosa. Le conoci a este chico que va a estar en Ecuador por tres semanas y conversamos largo, al final vamos a coincidar para vernos. Pero bueno, mientras conversamos vino mi hermano adoptive (ya hasta le digo ~a~o) y nos contaron que estaba lloviendo. Salimos a bailar en lluvia pero sin darme cuenta habia dejado de llover pero la musica no paraba y s...

Costa Rica truly started the day before we arrived to Puerto Limon… I offered a Salsa/merengue lesson and that just set the most amazing mood! It was fantastic! -I actually saw my students using their moves on another day in port =) I left the ship as quickly as I could because I needed to reserve the hostel for the next day… A taxi driver said: welcome to Costa Rica, need a cab? I responded in Spanish and he said… Pura Vida, bienvenida a casa… I was definitely home. I called the hostel (I was trying to get a phone card cause it was Heshi’s birthday- my best friend home but only got someone to lend me her cellphone to call the hostel). We were set for hammock hostel the second day… $5 for the one of the best nights of sleep I have ever gotten ;) I went to the Chiquita biodigester the first day. It was truly amazing to see how much they have advanced on producing energy from their wastewater. I will leave the technicalities for my energy resources class but I admit I was impr...