GUESS WHAT!
So my professor emailed me yesterday to tell me a couple of things:
1) he's excited about my photo project
2) he's assigning me to the group of students working at a local orphanage, so I can do my project with the kids there...which is AWESOME!
3) he said if need be, we can use program funds to buy cameras in Bolivia (Rutgers spends money to help students? Temperature in hell today: forty below).
4) he's going to write about me on his blog, so check it out.
That's all that's new and awesome, adios!
May 20, 2009
May 16, 2009
Pilot
HI FRIENDS!
guess who's back on the internet!
so as most of you know, unless you live under a rock, I'm going to BOLIVIA this summer! Why Bolivia, many of you have asked? I don't exactly know. I thought about going back to Germany (Rutgers has a summer program in Berlin), but at this point Germany is like my "safe place," so I decided it was high time to push my own buttons. I may or may not have gone slightly overboard...we shall see. At any rate, I get to go chill out in a barrio for six weeks and make friends with the Quechuan indians. Oh, and all of this on...zero spanish. Yes that's right friends, I am THAT person, the only one in the group with no spanish. I'm taking 101 in camden before I go, but we'll see. German will probably not come in handy.
Anyway, I figured I'd do another blog because (numerous) people have asked for it again. Why, I don't exactly know, but if the stupid things that happen to me can entertain you/allow you to procrastinate from work or whatever, by all means, read my crap, I'm happy to provide.
So here's what I know about Bolivia so far:
They speak spanish.
They have llamas.
The indian women wear bowler hats.
I'm going there.
That's all I got. I'm leaving June 29th out of Newark, getting to Bolivia on the 30th, and coming back August 15th. In between I'll be living with a Bolivian family, working in the barrios, putting a roof on a community center, making friends with llamas, learning spanish, and hopefully doing my little photography project.
About my little photography project! Most of you already know the story, but I'm collecting old digital cameras and memory cards to give to kids (probably in the orphanage where we're apparently working). I'm going to arrange some sort of art show down in Cochabamba, and then hopefully another one at Rutgers in the fall, and any support is way appreciated. So far I've got four cameras (So thank you Monroe family, Claire's sister, my sister's friend, and Rashid!) a bunch of memory cards (thanks Jen!) and like a million batteries (thanks Karen!) I've also got two more cameras on the way (thanks Dave/my sister's other friend!), which puts me pretty close to my goal of 7-10 cameras. Next challenge: getting them through customs without getting charged import tax...woot.
In other news, I have to get like a million shots. In other other news, did you know that the "We're not in Kansas anymore" is a misquote? The actual quote is "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Well I've a feeling I'm going to get lots of retarded stories out of my six weeks in Bolivia, so bite me Dorothy.
Anyway, will post again as I get closer to take off. Soooo...adios!
P.S. My professor is doing a Bolivia blog too, check it out for the scholarly, professional, no-cursing version of our life in South America:
http://bolivia-ru.blogspot.com/
guess who's back on the internet!
so as most of you know, unless you live under a rock, I'm going to BOLIVIA this summer! Why Bolivia, many of you have asked? I don't exactly know. I thought about going back to Germany (Rutgers has a summer program in Berlin), but at this point Germany is like my "safe place," so I decided it was high time to push my own buttons. I may or may not have gone slightly overboard...we shall see. At any rate, I get to go chill out in a barrio for six weeks and make friends with the Quechuan indians. Oh, and all of this on...zero spanish. Yes that's right friends, I am THAT person, the only one in the group with no spanish. I'm taking 101 in camden before I go, but we'll see. German will probably not come in handy.
Anyway, I figured I'd do another blog because (numerous) people have asked for it again. Why, I don't exactly know, but if the stupid things that happen to me can entertain you/allow you to procrastinate from work or whatever, by all means, read my crap, I'm happy to provide.
So here's what I know about Bolivia so far:
They speak spanish.
They have llamas.
The indian women wear bowler hats.
I'm going there.
That's all I got. I'm leaving June 29th out of Newark, getting to Bolivia on the 30th, and coming back August 15th. In between I'll be living with a Bolivian family, working in the barrios, putting a roof on a community center, making friends with llamas, learning spanish, and hopefully doing my little photography project.
About my little photography project! Most of you already know the story, but I'm collecting old digital cameras and memory cards to give to kids (probably in the orphanage where we're apparently working). I'm going to arrange some sort of art show down in Cochabamba, and then hopefully another one at Rutgers in the fall, and any support is way appreciated. So far I've got four cameras (So thank you Monroe family, Claire's sister, my sister's friend, and Rashid!) a bunch of memory cards (thanks Jen!) and like a million batteries (thanks Karen!) I've also got two more cameras on the way (thanks Dave/my sister's other friend!), which puts me pretty close to my goal of 7-10 cameras. Next challenge: getting them through customs without getting charged import tax...woot.
In other news, I have to get like a million shots. In other other news, did you know that the "We're not in Kansas anymore" is a misquote? The actual quote is "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Well I've a feeling I'm going to get lots of retarded stories out of my six weeks in Bolivia, so bite me Dorothy.
Anyway, will post again as I get closer to take off. Soooo...adios!
P.S. My professor is doing a Bolivia blog too, check it out for the scholarly, professional, no-cursing version of our life in South America:
http://bolivia-ru.blogspot.com/
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