SWEARING-IN WEEKEND So you bust your butt for about three months in preparation to become a volunteer. You would think that they swearing-in process would be monumental, right? The event didn’t live up to the hype. Fortunately, the events before Learn More …

Today someone called me ugly to my face. It was in Spanish with a Guarani accent but it was unmistakably “feo.” Now, my initial response was to be a smart ass, then I remembered that I was a guest in Learn More …

When I heard that I was going to Isla Pucu to meet Lindsey, I shrugged. One pueblo isn’t much different than another when you only know a name. I packed my school uniforms, an apo’i top for the supervision interview, Learn More …

We were told during orientation that we were in the “honeymoon” stage of our relationship with Paraguay. Most of us look at each other and shrugged. Very little is glittery about our small towns, and most of us are just Learn More …

Staging It’s been quite a while and so much has happened! For staging, I met up with 49 other invitees in Miami, FL. It was a bit overwhelming, especially since no one really knew what was going on between checking Learn More …

No more Prep Time, Maybe. Prep Time, Definitely-Right-Now-Maybe-Even-Should’ve-Started-Last-Week is here. Since I was notified in August, I’ve been making financial arrangements, trying to set up a new account that I can access on site, training someone at my job to Learn More …

Yo– This first posting is my attempt to make sure that I know how all this works. I have avoided blogs for so long (figuring that if we cared enough about how things were going, we’d pick up a freakin Learn More …