Well friends it's been a few years since my last adventure but I thought I'd give the heads up that another one is on the horizon, this time for a whole year! I've added and deleted a bunch of e-mails, so please delete yourself or let me know you want to be removed from the update list. Only 67 days until I'm off to Europe - first stop Catalonia and Valencia, Spain, for a little beach relaxation before heading to the mountains of Andorra! In the meantime, check out some of the old posts if you're bored! ~Jeff [View Full Entry]

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Boston, Via Salem (Massachusetts), Via Lowell (Massachusetts), Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York Day 70 - Monday 25.05.2009 So it’s Boston to Philadelphia with two pit stops along the way. First was the Salem where the Salem witch trials had taken place all those years ago. We went straight to the Salem Witch Museum and got there just as a tour was about to start. So how nice of them was it to let us in without paying (so we didn’t miss any of it) with the understanding we came back at the end and pay - hmmm, I believe this has happened [View Full Entry]

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I'm heeeeeeeeere (ish). This ish part is because i'm not entirely sure where exactly I am. I know I'm not where I'm ending up. But I also know that I am supposed to be here till tomorrow when we go to actual real live camp!! Happy days!!! Some of you will be pleased to know, (and many surprised) that the whole journey went pretty smoothly. I mean other than a minor pineapple related incident it was all marvy. (The pineapple exploded in my bag, which means everything smells faintly of pineapple which so far isn't too much of a problem but [View Full Entry]

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Boston really is a lovely city. I always thought it was meant to be like Melbourne but the truth is it is much prettier. The 1800s buildings on reclaimed land are something to see. Then there's still a fair spread of 1700 buildings in the Freedom Trail area of downtown, where the rebellion all started against the Brits. Among the highlights were a 90 minute volunteer led walk among the historical bits, a trip to Salem to see a witch trial reenactment and the old old port area, and wondering around the very posh Beacon Hill suburb. But the real highlight [View Full Entry]

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Well after travelling to South Beach and indulging in the heat the trip I had planned saw us jetting off to Boston before jumping on a tour. Boston is a great city and for those of you who get the chance it really is a must see. Plenty of history with the witch trials of Salem, the English settlements, the Revolutionary war and the Boston Tea Party. The downtown area is home to the Quincy marketplace which gets over 20 million visitors a year and is the 4th largest tourist attraction in the USA. Its full of small shops selling [View Full Entry]

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The mountains instead! I just got an email saying that the interns assigned to the regions of Ucayali and San Martin have been relocated to "la sierra", the mountains! This will definitely change my packing list, good thing I've hardly packed and I leave tomorrow morning. Exciting, I think! All that I've heard is that we'll be in the mountains, I don't know the region but I do know it could be pretty cold (high 20s counts as quite chilly in my opinion). I guess it's just as well, my hair does not agree with humidity. I guess I'll just have [View Full Entry]

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San Martin, here I come!! I found out yesterday what my deployment location is (the region of San Martin), and lo and behold I am headed to the jungle! I'll be spending the first week in Lima, training with the other interns, and then traveling next weekend to the first school, where I will stay for three weeks. I'll be with 5 guys at my deployment site, and I think we'll be going to the different schools in pairs. Apparently it will be sort of "cold" in Lima (like a true New Englander, nothing above freezing is really that cold) due [View Full Entry]

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Cambridge and Boston, MA We arrived in Watertown, MA, right outside of Boston on Sunday night to stay with Cihan, Can’s cousin. That night, we took a short drive into Cambridge to look at Harvard University campus and had an all you can eat dinner at Fire and Ice restaurant, escaping the pouring rain that began as we wandered through the small town. After, Can got a hold of his friend Sena, whom he hadnt seen in about 8 years, and we made our way to her flat in Cambridge so they could catch up. After, she gave us a [View Full Entry]

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Boston [View Full Entry]

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Still practicing typing on my XO In case you're not sure what I'm talking about, the XO laptops are the One Laptop Per Child laptops, what I'll be using all summer. They are little (about half the size of my normal laptop) and white and green, designed with children in mind. I'm not too bad off because I have small hands, but I imagine some of the guys will have challenges typing. It even has a microphone and camera, so I'll be able to upload some photos that I take with the laptop, but not from my camera. You will be [View Full Entry]

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