VIDEO!!!

A way to share the journey!

All the video edits were to music that had to be changed due to copyright.  Not the best video I ever made, but it gets the point across....and it's legal!  :-)

Guyana- What it meant to Connect

I find myself taking longer each time to process an adventure.  Each field study seems to have a different theme.

When I was in Belize, it was after 11 months of travel to even more countries, and I found myself so darn tired.  I was met by such grace in my cohort and leaders.  Belize for me was a time to learn my limits, and to not be so hard on myself.

When I was in Mongolia, I lost all track of time.  The sun set at 11pm and there was no electricity in the Steppe.  I got to play volleyball till the light faded, to sing songs in the candlelit mornings, and to climb the nearest hill for the heck of it.  Mongolia was a time for me to learn to be present...to not rush and do but to be.

So what was Guyana?  

It was a time that I felt so connected that leaving actually hurt.  How could I feel that way?  I didn't know the place or the people...and I even showed up late!  But I somehow ended up with friends-like-family in an instant.  I would lay in a hammock with a new friend (the-head-on-belly-no-personal-space kinda moment) and say, "sometimes I forget that I don't even know you!".  More than once I would just be in awe of how close and connected I felt with the people, the land, the culture, the food... everything.  I felt like I had been there for months.  Never once did I feel uncomfortable or out of my comfort zone.  And everyday, I drew closer to the people, to the nature, to the land.

When I was in Guyana, I learned to be connected.  To allow myself to invest wholeheartedly, knowing the risks.  And to deem it worth it.  And it was.