Okay, so it’s been a week since I’ve arrived, and now I totally get my job in a way that I couldn’t have grasped it before. A month ago, I thought Pencils of Promise was underestimating the speed at which I can do my work. But being here, I understand. The pace of life is just… different. And you have to roll with it, because bopenyung. No problem. C’est la vie, Pura vida, or whatever local colloquialism you can find to just say ‘whatevs.’ Let me just take a step back. Pencils of Promise is a non-profit involved in education in Laos, Nicaragua, and soon Guatemala. We focus our impact on two things: 1) building schools, and 2) sustaining them through continuous community education (on things like health, sanitation, nutrition, clean environment, and cultural identity and
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