failures + successes

Currently, I'm sitting with some grade 2 students.  Its 11:30, which means is igma rin (lunchtime).  We're chatting in the local language kinaray-a and sharing lots of laughs and smiles. Since coming back from my MST (mid-service training) in October, I've been trying to live in the moment everyday here and appreciate the little moments like these that happen …

day in the life

I'm approaching my sixth month here at site (!!!), so I've begun to adapt to a ~somewhat~ normal/daily schedule here.  A lot of times I feel like I'm riding on this up and down rollercoaster, each day can and usually is different from the next and I'm never quite sure whats ahead.  It is nice however to have …