Yesterday I read an article titled, Rape of American Women in India Shows how Women Travel with Peril in the L.A. Times. The article deals with the recent rape of a 30-year-old American woman visiting India who was assaulted by the men she hitched a ride back to her hotel from. I’m glad the article … Continue reading
One of the promises I made myself before this summer of endless travel was that I would take the time to reflect on each trip before getting excited about the next one. Here I am, two trips down, six to go, so I thought I’d take a moment to remember some things I love about … Continue reading
Looking back at our entire trip to New Orleans I am reminded of the little things, because five years from now, those are the things you remember most. Like… Trying to get the door to our house open every day. (You have to lift and pull). Saying “click click” “beep beep” “flash flash” because our … Continue reading
I would be remiss if I didn’t devote an entire post about my week in New Orleans to food. Man, is the food good there. From beignets at Cafe du Monde to fresh crawfish and snowballs you can’t go hungry in NOLA. Here are a few of my favorite eats from our trip last week. … Continue reading
On Wednesday I was not feeling so hot. After several trips to the bathroom and an ineffective dose of a cheap Pepto-Bismal knock-off brand, I decided to stay home today and sleep off what I later decided was a 24-hour stomach bug. By the time Fig and KP finished work around 3 I was already … Continue reading
On Monday we headed out at 7:45 and gathered at the St. Bernard Project home-base for a brief orientation before driving over to our work site. We were given the ever-famous New Orleans Mardi Gras beads with a “Women’s Week” medallion attached and took our seats on the wooden benches. They talked to us about … Continue reading
Today we took a trip to the library so I could go through some archives at the New Orleans Public Library and while we’re here, soaking in the internet access, I figured I’d upload my post about our first day in New Orleans! Today (Sunday) I touched down in New Orleans, Louisiana. After the four … Continue reading
Flying out of Boston to New Orleans this morning from Women’s Rebuild Week with the St. Bernard Project! So excited to see these lovely ladies later today and start rebuilding tomorrow. On the agenda? Do some good-old-fashioned manual labor. Research the history of tourism in New Orleans in the public libraries Special Collections. Celebrate my … Continue reading
The stars shine brighter in Haiti. Without all of the lights from earth, the lights from the sky are so much clearer. Laying on our backs, staring up each night we would search for the constellations we recognized and come up empty. After several nights of trying to pick out “the big dipper” or “orion” we abandoned the pursuit and started making up our own constellations. Continue reading
In Haiti they speak Creole, a language that sounds very similar to French and looks entirely different written out. I was operating on two years of middle school (formal European) French in Haiti and managed to get along fine most of the time. Some of the older boys spoke some English and we could communicate … Continue reading
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