It has been a while since the last blog but time flies by so fast when travelling! Finally it was time to move around in Southamerica and discover this beautiful place! I started off with a flight from Rio to Caracas. It was such an amazing flight, as I saw Rio from above by night, which was very impressive. After a stop over in Sao Paulo I landed in time in Caracas at 4.30 am in the morning. I have booked a trip to Los Roques and it was now the advanture to find the domestic airport to catch my flight [View Full Entry]

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( En francais en bas de page) This is it. The 3 months adventure around South America has just started for me. After a pretty uneventful journey (although I still wonder how Nick and I , made in on time to Heathrow airport despite the police stopping us) I made it to Caracas safely. First impression it´s hot, really humide! I spent my 1st night here yesterday and am now waiting for my bus to Colombia. I spent most of the day walking around Caracas, trying not to look like a tourist (many people are black or mixed race here so [View Full Entry]

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Ashanti, Yo Pd: por peos electricos en kenya los lunes miercoles y viernes quitan la electricidad de 6 am a 6 pm :s I am back! Where should I start? I finally arrive to the volunteer’s house at Kiseria on Sunday, the house is beautiful and big, my “room” I huge, I do have to queen beds, an small living room and a space full bathroom with hot water but almost not water, hehehe I finally meet Amanda (18 years old from Indiana) and Priscilla (22 years old from Toronto), they are my very special roomies, as you can imagine we [View Full Entry]

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Hello! I did just finish with my luggage :) and with this a pretty long day (but a successful one). The excitement did not let me sleep much (only about 3 hours)... Today i had the opportunity to have lunch with a good friend that is living in Norway, then I visit a house with 2 nuns and 17 kids with the amazing Corina (she made almost all the design of the project) and to repair a bicycle for one the kids (that remind me how easy is to touch and improve a life) Now i am going to bed, my [View Full Entry]

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The emotion keeps growing! Only hours are left for my journey to begin... I am making my bag with my sisters, my cousins pass by to wish good luck, i had for lunch and dinner one of my favorites foods and had my last Pilate s classes for weeks. It is very difficult for me to sleep right now, my phone rings constantly and the minutes passes by. Tomorrow is a day with a lot of work, a good friend is here and we will try to have lunch together (he is living in Norway) there are some things i need [View Full Entry]

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Do you believe in magic? Being a scientist, and formerly, an uptight realist, I can say I never did. Maybe when I was a little princess with her head in the clouds I did, way, way, back, but the storms of life quickly dispelled all the myths of miracles... But could there be some magic in the world after all? And what kind? The kind that makes people fly and dragons breath fire? No, not likely. But maybe the kind that some would call faith, or karma, good will, or spirituality. No, I am not a hippy, nor am I about [View Full Entry]

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Good morning everyone! I am making my last arrangements for my visit to Kenya, as you might already know my plan is to spend a little bit over 2 months over there and help in the construction of a Grandparent Community Center for about 300 kids and 200 grandparents with 9 classrooms and a medical area in Massailand yeiiiiiii I am so excited I have only sleep about 4 hours a day It will take me some time to get there (will leave Venezuela at 6:20 am and arrive the next day at almost 11 pm), then I will take a [View Full Entry]

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One of the greatest things about travelling is that you actually have time, time to live. Time to appreciate everything there is to appreciate, to do the things you want to do, to think about the things you need to think about, to just be, be yourself, without pressure, without judgement, just you. Touring Brasil was marvellous, spectacular.... Brasil is my heart. But also it was tiring... I began to feel sleepy all the time- I think it was because I was going to bed late, not too late, around midnight, but when I was going to bed at 10:30 I [View Full Entry]

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At around 9 this morning, Ale and I went to a futsal club (they call it futbolito around here...little futbol) to meet some of his friends and play. It really is a little futbol and little field. It´s a little bigger than a basketball court, covered in supersoft rubber flakes, and they play 5 on 5. For those of you who don´t know, I do play back home, but I was a little worried that I was gonna get housed here! Thankfully, I held my own very well, scoring 4 goals and making some friends. They were all very friendly and [View Full Entry]

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I got to Caracas this afternoon at about 2 PM. My first encounter in South America (besides inmigracion) was my good friend from Newberry College, Alejandro. Thank God I had a familiar face in my point of entry. After dropping my stuff off at his house, we went to eat Arepas and have a couple of the local beers, Polar Solaras. Then we went to Valle Arriba to get some good pics of Caracas. I think I´m going to go for a run now. Don´t worry, Ale assures me I´ll be safe, as long as I don´t carry a wad of [View Full Entry]

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