AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Today Laura has traveled to the silly little country of Costa Rico!! How exciting! It's not really my place to be blogging about it but... I can't help myself!
It's funny because last fall we started talking about what we wanted to do this summer and the original plan was to go and volunteer somewhere. That plan evolved into numerous internships and a frantic application process, hopes of staying a while in DC, perhaps being in Lubbock (for buns) for yet another summer, and hanging around good ol Cooper Texas for me. But, as we found with apartment searching... the first idea and gut feeling is put in motion.
Laura's spending SIX weeks in San Jose, living with a family, speaking spanish (...), volunteering in a school, working on a garden, hanging out at internet cafes to blogsie, and being in flipping Costa Rico!!! Courtesy of the amazing Shayna Harris (inspiring bringer of fair trade goodness) I applied for a position with United Students for Fair Trade and was elected! (I might have been the only one who applied) But, part of the position includes a two week leadership summit in Nicaragua for two weeks! Can't wait to go and to meet lots of awesome motivated student leaders!!!
Mostly though... I wanted to say that I am very proud of you Buns. I'm proud because you are not only going far away from Glen for SIX ENTIRE WEEKS but also from everyone else you know. I think this will be a great great experience for you and you will become very empowered upon discovering even more of the independence rustling in your bones! I hope that in these coming weeks you'll let it out. I'm sure you will, well... because you kind of have to!
Ok so the other mostly I've been thinking about is a song... a song that goes like this:
"Pangea! We used to be together, but why'd we have to drift apart?"
Why did we have to drift apart?
I might have painted pangea.
Saturday, May 30, 2009 | ramble by groovybaby at 8:37 PM |
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lol it's costa rica. not rico. lol
Thanks for blogging for me! I'm going to try to make time and respond to your e-mail tomorrow and blog real nice like.
I have so many stories, and I've been here for two days! It's crazy. And I go to bed really early because there is only so much spanish you can take in a day.
I just finished eating supper. I got a huge plate of rice and veggies and chicken. Man. I'm stufffffffed.
But Terri I really appreciate your support. I have had very random mood swings here that vary from almost breaking out in tears to wanting to be here and help. So your e-mails give me a lot of comfort and hope, and it's nice to be reminded about the reason why I am here.
BUT I will talk to you all about this in your e-mail.
si quieres praticar tu espanol, llamame! (if you want to practice your spanish, call me!)
I LOVE SPEAKING IN SPANISH! mostly. And when the person isn't fluent.
But I think it's good that you are making an effort to learn spanish, because, in all honesty, you don't have to. I hope the people in Nicaragua will appreciate that.
Honestly, I like the way Nicaragua sounds better than Costa Rica.
But in terms of learning spanish, I think you should do all of the podcasts and everything you have been doing, but another thing that would help, if you can, is to find someone who can speak spanish and see if they would be willing to talk to you.
Even if it is someone from tech and you talk online (Stephanie, perhaps? Glen? Keeley? Brittany?)
HASTA MANANA MI AMIGA!
wow that was a really long comment. I should have just sent an e-mail.
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