Hello all,
I am going to be hosting an Ecuadorian dinner and silent auction at the River Arts Center in Morrisville on August 16th! This is an amazing opportunity for me to make the final fundraising push to pay for the rest of my tuition, airfare, required costs and equipment. I am thoroughly excited to cook lots of Ecuadorian food and make more connections in my community with local businesses, artists and farmers and I hope you all are too!
The menu for the dinner will be much like that of the lunch I hosted at school, empanadas, salad with cilantro-lime dressing, lentil stew, yellow rice, a chicken dish and coconut flan etc, and will be prepared in the restaurant-certified kitchen at River Arts Center in Morrisville by myself, friends and whoever else is willing to help. River Arts is renting me the whole building for the day of the 16th and the kitchen for the two days before to do prep cooking.
If you have any suggestions for who I should contact for help with cooking, silent auction donations, or food donations, or if you would like to help, please let me know. This event has an enormous amount of potential, let's make it great!
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Working Hard
Since school got out, I have been blessed with lots of generous neighbors with chores to do. I made over $1,000 in the three weeks after school got out thanks to the generosity of my many employers. From gardening, to wood stacking, to dog washing, to house cleaning, I have been able to help many of my friends and neighbors with the chores they haven't had the time to get around to.
As the summer continues, I look forward to more work and fundraising. I will be hosting an Ecuadorian Dinner on August 16th at the River Art's center in Morrisville which I am very excited about. The event is a fabulous fundraising opportunity that will help with the final push to finish paying for tuition, airfare, required expenses and equipment!
As the summer continues, I look forward to more work and fundraising. I will be hosting an Ecuadorian Dinner on August 16th at the River Art's center in Morrisville which I am very excited about. The event is a fabulous fundraising opportunity that will help with the final push to finish paying for tuition, airfare, required expenses and equipment!
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Kroka Pre-Trip
Going to the Kroka base camp in marlow, NH this past weekend brought the semester to life for me. There are only a few months left before I will be back in Marlow, and three weeks later, I'll be in Ecuador!
It was awesome to meet the people I'll be living with for 15 weeks next fall and get a sense for how Kroka works. I got to the pre-trip weekend late because I had a field trip with my AP Bio class on Friday and Saturday, but I got to spend the evening and this morning with the group. All but three of the students were there and I already feel like they are good friends.
We had a delicous dinner and took a quiet reflectional walk to the beaver pond before sitting down around a fire and sharing our hopes, fears and thoughts about the upcoming semester. What struck me most about being there was that there was so much space to think and process my feelings. Even though we were doing something most of the time-building a fire, cooking, picking greens, running, swimming-there was no distraction from the rush of society to keep me from experiencing the moment. I look forward to having this great space to grow in during the semester.
All the time that I was there, I thought of all the people who have made this trip a reality for me. When I was walking across the beautiful fields, sleeping in little hobbit-hole like yurts covered in grass, and talking with my future adventure classmates, everyone who has supported me in some way was there with me too. Without the amazing community of friends, neighbors, teachers and family that I have been blessed with, none of this could happen. When I wrote Kroka another check for tuition, it was not my hand that signed it, but the hand of many, many people who have stepped out of their way to help me pursue this dream.
There is still a good bit of fund raising and work to do this summer, but if the past six months are any indicator for what the next three will be, I am definitely going to Ecuador. Thank you all!
It was awesome to meet the people I'll be living with for 15 weeks next fall and get a sense for how Kroka works. I got to the pre-trip weekend late because I had a field trip with my AP Bio class on Friday and Saturday, but I got to spend the evening and this morning with the group. All but three of the students were there and I already feel like they are good friends.
We had a delicous dinner and took a quiet reflectional walk to the beaver pond before sitting down around a fire and sharing our hopes, fears and thoughts about the upcoming semester. What struck me most about being there was that there was so much space to think and process my feelings. Even though we were doing something most of the time-building a fire, cooking, picking greens, running, swimming-there was no distraction from the rush of society to keep me from experiencing the moment. I look forward to having this great space to grow in during the semester.
All the time that I was there, I thought of all the people who have made this trip a reality for me. When I was walking across the beautiful fields, sleeping in little hobbit-hole like yurts covered in grass, and talking with my future adventure classmates, everyone who has supported me in some way was there with me too. Without the amazing community of friends, neighbors, teachers and family that I have been blessed with, none of this could happen. When I wrote Kroka another check for tuition, it was not my hand that signed it, but the hand of many, many people who have stepped out of their way to help me pursue this dream.
There is still a good bit of fund raising and work to do this summer, but if the past six months are any indicator for what the next three will be, I am definitely going to Ecuador. Thank you all!
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