BELIZE | Thursday, 13 Mar 2008 | Views [49]
I leave for Central America in 8 hours, my second trip to Belize to work as a health education volunteer. People keep asking if I’m excited – I’m getting there, Once work starts and I get busy, I’ll be happy. So, get ready for more tails ... Read more >
BELIZE | Monday, 17 Dec 2007 | Views [48]
I cannot believe that I am leaving in 4 days. The place that I have called home for nearly 6 months, I will leave and return to normal life; winter in the Midwest. Life down here as taught to appreciate the small things; a smile from a child, clean ... Read more >
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BELIZE | Saturday, 8 Dec 2007 | Views [45]
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
BELIZE | Wednesday, 5 Dec 2007 | Views [103]
I am a vagina warrior; a feminist, humanist, women, daughter and sister. I think that all humans are equal in worth, that no ethnicity, education level, gender, economic status or religion is better than any other. For this, I have been called many ... Read more >
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BELIZE | Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007 | Views [83]
The celebration for the 19th started on the 17th. You could tell that something was happening, drums could be heard from all over PG, a tell-tale sign that the Garifuna community was celebrating. Saturday started the 16 days of Activism done ere in the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
BELIZE | Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007 | Views [90]
It has been over 5 months since I have been able to talk about sex. That’s a long time to not talk about condoms, lubricants, orgasm’s, safer sex and at all the other fun things that have to do with sex. Mind you, the conversation that I finally had down ... Read more >
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BELIZE | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007 | Views [75]
They always say that ‘time goes by fast’. First, how do they know that? Does it always go fast? What about when time goes slow? Like in lectures, work or traffic. Second, who are ‘they’? In Elizabethtown this very subject was ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
BELIZE | Saturday, 27 Oct 2007 | Views [77]
Doing laundry by hand sucks, whether it’s scrubbing it on a large stone table, a rock in the river, or in a bucket on the back porch. Clothes here get SO filthy. I don’t know how women in the past did it. I have to wash my own clothes, ... Read more >
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BELIZE | Friday, 19 Oct 2007 | Views [114] | Comments [1]
In my stew tonight, there was okra, chicken neck, potatoes, throat pieces, green and red peppers, breadfruit, chicken feet, and noodles. Did you catch all the random chicken bits? When I first got to Belize, all of my host mom’s were ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
BELIZE | Monday, 15 Oct 2007 | Views [117] | Comments [2]
I have never thought of myself as a role model. It may have been some fantasy of mine, to be looked up to, revered in some way – but I have never used the title to describe myself. In the past week, I have become a nanny, big sister, emotional ... Read more >
Tags: People
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