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Wow, it has seriously been too long since I last looked at this thing. Is anyone still out there? Well, either way I'll just update whoever is interested on my life to date:
I graduated college. BA in Psychology and Spanish. Me and my girl are still together, almost a year now. She just left earlier today after staying here for a week before driving all the way back to Ohio from her summer job in Connecticut. My puppy had to go to the hospital and we found out his kidneys were failing. They kept him for a few days on IV fluids, he has permanent kidney damage and is on meds and a special diet, but at least he's home where he's loved the most.
On the 29th I'll be leaving the country once again. This time my adventures are taking me to Costa Rica for 6 months. I'll be volunteering with several orphanages in a small suburb called Los Angeles, which is about 15 minutes from Heredia. I'm ready to go; I've been taking my anti-malarial pills and spraying my clothes with uber strength bug spray so I don't get dengue fever or whatever else those pesky insects carry down there...I doubt I'm making this trip sound as glamorous as it really is.
I'm volunteering with the Orphaned Starfish Foundation, which is a foundation that teachers children in orphanages a life skill: computers. So that when the kids are old enough to leave the orphanage they can use their skills to get jobs and whatnot. Well I think it's pretty rad, and I'm very excited to be a part of it.
I can't help but feel like I'm trying to postpone entering the real world. I mean, I'm being provided housing and potentially food as well, but other than that I'm not getting paid. I must be crazy to say I'd do it for 6 months. I honestly looked for real jobs, but you know how it is: you need a job for experience but no company will hire you without experience. Fucking never-ending circle, that is.
So, I'm going away yet again. Let's tack this experience onto my resume and see what happens. I'll try to do better about updating this and documenting my experience, I forgot how much I like to look back at old entries at where I've come from. So really, I'm not doing this for you guys, sorry. It's gonna be all about me. Just me. By myself. Growing. Maturing. Loving life, by myself.
I graduated college. BA in Psychology and Spanish. Me and my girl are still together, almost a year now. She just left earlier today after staying here for a week before driving all the way back to Ohio from her summer job in Connecticut. My puppy had to go to the hospital and we found out his kidneys were failing. They kept him for a few days on IV fluids, he has permanent kidney damage and is on meds and a special diet, but at least he's home where he's loved the most.
On the 29th I'll be leaving the country once again. This time my adventures are taking me to Costa Rica for 6 months. I'll be volunteering with several orphanages in a small suburb called Los Angeles, which is about 15 minutes from Heredia. I'm ready to go; I've been taking my anti-malarial pills and spraying my clothes with uber strength bug spray so I don't get dengue fever or whatever else those pesky insects carry down there...I doubt I'm making this trip sound as glamorous as it really is.
I'm volunteering with the Orphaned Starfish Foundation, which is a foundation that teachers children in orphanages a life skill: computers. So that when the kids are old enough to leave the orphanage they can use their skills to get jobs and whatnot. Well I think it's pretty rad, and I'm very excited to be a part of it.
I can't help but feel like I'm trying to postpone entering the real world. I mean, I'm being provided housing and potentially food as well, but other than that I'm not getting paid. I must be crazy to say I'd do it for 6 months. I honestly looked for real jobs, but you know how it is: you need a job for experience but no company will hire you without experience. Fucking never-ending circle, that is.
So, I'm going away yet again. Let's tack this experience onto my resume and see what happens. I'll try to do better about updating this and documenting my experience, I forgot how much I like to look back at old entries at where I've come from. So really, I'm not doing this for you guys, sorry. It's gonna be all about me. Just me. By myself. Growing. Maturing. Loving life, by myself.