Hello everyone,
We have had a very eventful last few days here in beautiful Guatemala. On saturday we took a 2 hour hike into the hills, mountains, jungles, and every other imaginable terrian and arrived at a cave. On the hike to the cave we were attacked by a chacha bird and it felt like it was a scene straight out of Jurassic Park and the chacha was a Velociraptor.… Read More
Hi everyone!Its Emily, Lauren, and Hannah. We are in the village of poptun in guatemala doing a scavenger hunt (like the others below said) It took us a while to get to here but we made it! Even though were all sweaty and not very clean were excited to be here. We´ll post again as soon as we canhasta luego… Read More
Hello everyone this is Brian, Lexi and Kelly. We are on a scavenger hunt in Poptun, Guatemala. The place where we are staying is amazing and wonderful. We are all looking forward to a lovely lagoon swim later after a very long trek today. In case you did not know a basura is not just a garbage it is also a landfill…we were able to find this in the mountains… Read More
Hola amigos y familia!Lauren F, Brooke, and Griffin here! we are currently on a scavenger hunt in a local town. we have had a wonderful time sofar at finca ixobel, relaxing, bonding, and preparing for our trip. the walk here was supposed to be 40 minutes but due to directional difficulties we went on quite the adventure through the town basura, aka the dump- the elephant graveyard… well not elephants… Read More
I just received an email from Heather and Adam that the group’s officially touched ground at Finca Ixobel, the site of their orientation and also the group’s first real solid ground since taking off in SF! In Heather’s words the leaders are typing from “the Flinstone’s original computer” so don’t expect any contact from the students until tomorrow at the earliest 🙂 Yours,
Ethan… Read More
I just got off the phone with our fearless leaders and everyone has safely arrived into SFO and are with their group! … that’s right, everyone! Despite snow on the East Coast, several frazzled flight rearrangements and one delay, the group is successfully united! Stay tuned as another blog gets posted from Finca Ixobel during their first stop for orientation. Yours in spirit,
Ethan Knight
Executive Director… Read More
Hola otra vez! 5 Days until we meet in SFO…
We will be meeting in front of the TACA airlines counter in the international terminal at 8:30pm on Wednesday, Feb 10th. We know many of you have flights that get you in well before 8:30pm, but just in case you are running late or can’t find us, please call 1-877-285-1808. This is a Carpe Diem office number that will be… Read More
Hola and greetings from Carpe Diem HQ in Portland, OR. We are both very excited for our upcoming adventure – with less than a week to go before we meet in SFO, we have been working hard with final preparations and packing, as we imagine many of you are doing as well. We will be calling you all in the next few days before we leave, to chat a bit… Read More
Hey what’s been going on you guys? I know we joked around about still blogging so I was thinking why not?I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say that it is so weird to be back at home and in this other reality, but life is good. Kaise my brotha I don’t know cold it is there but it don’t have nothing on argon. I don’t remember oregon getting… Read More
Our super special adventure comes to a close, as we spend our last day together here in Roatan. Today the group got certified in there open water diving, and Bobby and Karen received there advanced scuba diving certification. As were all spending the day doing some last dives, and writing our goodbye letters to each, our I AM poems or flows, evaluations were all a little sad to be leaving… Read More
After getting up at nearly 230am to catch our flights, we are finally here in the island of Roatan. An island only about 40 miles long, and mostly English speaking. A little bit different for us, seeming we have been traveling in central America where the most common language is Spanish. so walking in the grocery store, and speaking Spanish with an English reply is a little different for us.… Read More
If you were born with a tail, what kind of tail would it be? This question was tossed around amongest our group at the breakfast table this morning. In years past I had considered this question and decided I would like to have a big, bushy, red, fox tail. I feel it would be very suiting on me. It was decided that Alex would have the tail of a lion,… Read More
Where I last left off our group was preparing for our final shift at Playa Longosta. We´ve done much traveling since then and we have experienced and seen some wild things. First off was our final shift working with the turtles. We had to rise at 4:30a.m the next morning to leave for San Jose, so we were able to all do the same shift from 7 to 11:30. We… Read More
After leaving the island of Ometepe we once again awoke well before sunrise in order to make the journey to Costa Rica in time for dinner at our new home in Playa Longosta for Proyecto Baula. Surprisingly Crossing the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica went smoother than expected. With our passports freshly stamped we were ready to venture into a new paradise known as Costa Rica. We soon experienced… Read More
After saying goodbye to San Juan the beach and our new friend Tyler, who has been accommodating us, we made our way over to the island of Ometepe. The island is on the biggest lake in Central America. With its water covering 8,264 sq km makes it the 21st largest lake in the world . ITS BIG! We arrived to the island by a hour long ferry boat trip, then… Read More
All has been and is still going really well in San Juan. Our time is being spent eating, building solar paneled water heaters, surfing, playing games and just having a fun relaxing time. The past three nights some of us have witnessed the most beautiful breath taking sun sets with the sun seeming to melt into the sea. Some have watched from a bobbing board in the waves of the… Read More
Since our last post a lot has changed, but before I tell you about the present I should talk about how we finished off in San Marcos and what has happened. Our last day 4 of us (Dan, Bobby, Max and I) decided to doing some exploring and ventured off up into the Mountains behind San Marcos and found a gorgeous waterfall. That night we celebrated halloween. With all of… Read More
Hola amigos y familiaWe are writing from the San Marcos on the beautiful Lake Atitlan. After saying our goodbyes to Xela and all of our new acquaintances we headed off for our 3 day 28 mile trek to Lake Atitlan. On Saturday we all met at 6am with bags packed as light as we could and only what we needed for the trek. We headed off for our first day,… Read More
Friends, family, countrymen, lend me your ears. We write to you during our last precious week in the lovely city of Xela, more formerly known as Quetzaltenango. Since its been a little over two weeks since our last update, fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a semi lengthy account of our ongoings thus far. Arriving in Xela on a Monday, our first days of class were on a Tuesday. The… Read More
just so you know who is who….(from left to right)Dan, Bobby, Celia, Heidi, Karen, Alex, Max, Andy, and Kaise (pronounced like kai-eees like pie)… Read More
