BELIZE | Monday, 17 Dec 2007 | Views [549]
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 | Wednesday, 5 Dec 2007 | Views [774]
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, 14 Nov 2007 | Views [662]
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 | Saturday, 27 Oct 2007 | Views [563]
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 | Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 | Views [439] | Comments [1]
It’s been slow at the clinic this week. The ambulance that usually drives the staff
out for Mobile clinics is being used in town – so, we stay in San Antonio. I
have made 6 handouts on various diseases and health concern that plague the
villagers ... Read more >
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BELIZE | Thursday, 2 Aug 2007 | Views [403]
The express bus from Belize City will get you into Belmopan in a hour and 15 minutes. The cost for 5 women with over 400lbs of luggage would be around $60USD, a taxi for the same amount of cargo and people is $120USD.. more expensive but makes for a ... Read more >
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BELIZE | Sunday, 15 Jul 2007 | Views [551] | Comments [1]
I leave in exactly 27 hours for Central America. I'm not nervous- although I feel I should be. Six months in Southern Belize working in remote villages that have no running water, electricity and are in short supply and high demand of community aid ... Read more >
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