the world is attaniable. sink your teeth in... and suck out all the necter.

Mar 10, 2009 10:25

wow, i sure don´t update live journal very often...  oops? guess i´m busy living real life instead! where have i been? let me share with you..

so im back in central america. i helped boild a school in Horconcitos, Honduras. my heart swelled with each thub-bub of kindness and smile and broken spansih word i uttered. i felt honoured. and so full of love from other people. the experence reminded me that one person really can make a world of difference. i felt the light and love of our dear friend Jack Allen (whom we were building the school for) shine down on me. shine down on me.

i spent a week in livingston, guatemala. drinking and having fun. a little out of charactor for me, actually. hungover and burnt out, i spent a quiet 2 days in a living outdoor space that was completly open. i was living outside in the rainforrest in Rio Dulce! it was beautiful and alive and growing and breathing... exactually what my hangover called for.

then up to belize, where i spent 2 weeks and ..sigh.. probably too much money. i went diving 5 times.. and dove the blue hole. wow! i want to be a sting ray... living peacefully at the botton of the sea. and when i feel like leaving.. shake off all the sand that covers me and fly like an underwater bird. i met lovely friends from sweeden and london and .. calgray of all places. another canadain escaping the cold. the 5 of us laughed a lot, went skinny dipping in the ocean, cooked healthy food and listened to music until late in the night. we traveled all over belize together. suddenly the world shrank.
suddenly we were just young people traveling. and we had so much in common, despide being from completly different countries. it was wild, and made the hair on the back on my arms stand up on end. i thought to myself how attainable the world really, really is.

skip.skip.skip some traffic and transit, and busses later i left my dear friends and chilled out on a beach in el salvador for 2 weeks. i met 2 others... corner, 52 and david, 30. david tried to teach me how to surf, but i ended up on the beach instead. el tunco was an easy place to get distracted. before i knew it i had been there for 10 days. we all left together for the big city. corner left the next day for panama. david got ill. i made art and wrote a lot. and felt very sorry for my sick friend.

after 2 long days of sleep and sickness and spewing fluids like you only do in the developing world, david is finally feeling better and we are off to another beach, near nicaragua today. i can´t spend much more time here, in el salvador... only like a day or two at this beach. i can hear nicaragua calling me. i am excited for nicaragua! and leon and granada and ometepe. and volcainos and old citys and beautiful things. the farther south i go... the happyer i feel. i see updates from home about cold and snow and ice.  i wonder what the political state is like. i wonder how the job market is. i wonder what i´ll do. where i will live. if im ready for school? who will i be by then... 2 countries later? i am changing so quickly. like a snake sheading skin after skin after skin. i wrote a poem yesterday, as i waited for my friend to feel better. i like it a lot. i painted too. i have wild dreams most nights that i sometimes can remember come morning. sometimes i wish i didn´t. but those moments pass. you simply can´t be happy every moment of every day. and in dreamland, you aren´t the driver. i  still wake up. the sun still gets up. i pack my bag and move on.

so thats this trip, so far in a nutshell. i have kept a detailed brightly painted journal and photos to match. and somewhere inside me i am getting ready to go back to canada.

and i am wishing you all the best of love.

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