A reflection of sorts: In the days since the trip, people have asked me so many times how the trip was, but I have not been able to accurately capture the experience in words. I try to show a picture, and since it is worth a thousand words, it is better, but it still doesn’t do any justice to the experience. The beauty was uncapturable, indescribable, and if you’ve never … [Read more...] about One Gnarly Trip
Written 1-13-17 As our trip comes to a close, I now understand what the students from a college in Northern California meant when they told us that we looked fresh and hopeful. After a week, we were tired, dirty, and willing to sleep on a rock. We have gone extremely hard for a week, getting almost no sleep. But don’t get me wrong, we still gasp when we see a rainbow so … [Read more...] about Lost in Translation
Written 1-11-17 Fear is something we experience all the time for the silliest reasons. The list of phobias is too long to imagine. Fear is meant to protect us, it’s the body’s way of keeping us from playing with tigers, jumping off cliffs, or some other stupid thing, but the root of it is based in realizing man’s inferiority. We can’t play with tigers because they would maul … [Read more...] about Pura Vida!
Written 1/10/17 We come to college to find ourselves, but sometimes we spend too much of our four (ish) years finding out who we want to be that we forget to find out who we are. We have to get away from our normal hustle and bustle of every day life to really step back and see what we enjoy doing. I, as well as six others in my group, and seven other volunteers from around … [Read more...] about Bet on Yourself