What's the difference between a hostel and a hotel? This is a question that I seem to be asked a lot. I also attribute this question to the fact that hostels aren't nearly as popular in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. I also think due to the movie …
Pre-Service Training When I along with 5 other volunteers (hereby referred to as my cluster, arrived in Kvishkheti, I was greeted by my host mother Marina and her daughter Lela. My host family also consisted of my host father Junberi. There were also two sons but they didn't live at home, Shalva and Andrew. For …
Getting Acquainted Before I left for Georgia, I went to Philadelphia to meet up with all of the other volunteers that were headed to Georgia. There was already a Facebook group with everybody so I had an idea of what everybody looked like before I actually arrived in Philadelphia. I still was very nervous about …
True Life :I'm a Peace Corps volunteer. I remember being a college student watching this episode of True Life and I was completed fascinated. I had never before heard of Peace Corps but it looked amazing. This particular episode featured volunteers serving in Africa doing AIDS/HIV prevention work. I had never met anybody that had …
Bienvenido a Colombia Summer 2010, Jeroz, my boyfriend at the time, and I went to Cartagena, Colombia. It was our pre-25th birthday trip. Our birthdays are only 3 days apart so even though we didn't go on our actual birthdays, it was still our birthday trip. It wasn't a very long trip. I think we …
London 2009 NYE 2009 Vernon and I headed to London. I was really excited because I was going to be reunited with my two favorite Brits, Sian and Melanie. We hadn't seen each other in about a year so I was super excited. We were in England for about a week. The plan was to …
Brazil or Bust Brazil was everything I hoped for and more. Brazil was a place that I had always wanted to visit. There was something about it that just resonated with me. So in the summer of 2009, my brother Vernon and I decided to go to Brazil. He mainly wanted to go because he's …
First trip to Asia In 2008, my roommate Stephanie came across a really good deal to go to Beijing over winter break. She invited me to come along and of course I obliged her. We decided to spend about 9 days in China so that we could visit Beijing and Shanghai. We spent most of …
People make the country Living in Spain and Mexico both had their challenges but the number one reason why I enjoyed my time in Mexico more than I did Spain, is because of the people. I found Mexicans to be much more warm and welcoming.I also found it to be much easier to make a …
DON'T DRINK THE WATER!!! There were a few things that I had to get used to when I moved to Mexico. The first thing was the fact that you couldn't drink the water. That was a change because when I lived in Spain, there weren't any issues with drinking the tap water. However, in Mexico …
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