People are out there making a difference everyday. We just don't hear about them. One important thing we're doing here is meeting them and sharing their stories of how their beliefs, their words and their actions impact their families, the…
Got up at 5 a.m. to bike to a farm with my friends Frankling and Jose Luuis, who works on a milk farm, to drink fresh milk and test my hand at milking a cow. Finally managed to milk a steady stream from a patient one, until Jose Luis (otherwise kn…
One month and three days after my arrival we just drove down from Las Minitas with the masons, who have spent three weeks there. Today they put the final exterior cement on the school and yesterday the roof. We are fast moving! Someone from the co…
I've started to take one long video of the commute to and from Las Minitas where we are buildig the school. The strangers who stand on the side of the road and we pick up. The farmers. The cows trotting down the road. The mountain. The giant pil…
10 p.m. on a "schoolnight," on the back of a motorcycle, puttering along the pavement, past the neighbors sitting outside their houses or on the street, with a friend riding your draft, close enough you could grab the dirty wheel. They are…
Photos from our weekend trip to San Juan del Sur, the famous beach and surfing area in Nicaragua for Semana Santa. They are filming Survivor there. Really? You could walk over the f-ing hill for a beer and soda. Not much “surviving” there. We also…
In the last three days, I have watched a guy lift a 100-pound bag of cement with his teeth, learned how to hammer 14 nails at once, rode down a cinder volcano on a wooden board with formica to make me go faster glued to theb bottom of it, narrowly…
Started the day with a 2.5-hour wait at my least favorite spots in any country: the bus station. Finally got to El Sauce and not enough time to hike to the waterfall so we grabbed friends and went to Rio Grande, where there are 20-foot or so rock…
that's is the question! Two years ago, we all went swimming in Rio Grande and I gulped down some water, as I always do. So did Kellan and Yaci. An hour later, we were all in the back garden, throwing up, me laughing so hard I cried it was so…
