SPECIAL GUESTS
The 2012 student travel season kicked off in June here at
Explorama. We started with a group of 90
people, mostly students, from Indiana. Our next group was the most important one,
well to me anyways! June 14 my mom’s
Fremont Rainforest group arrived with 17 kids, my mom, and Rachel (a teacher
leader/my mom’s substitute daughter). It
had been almost a year since I had seen my mom, so needless to say I was
looking forward to their trip. They
arrived extremely tired after over 24 hours traveling, but we still hit the
ground running! We spent 6 nights in the
jungle and one night in Iquitos. Overall they were a wonderful group. We saw a lot of wildlife, had a great service
project painting a school that had been flooded, and had a wonderful afternoon
interacting with my students at the library.
Cliver was one of our guides so it was a great opportunity for my mom to
get to know him a little better. (She
did meet him last year but only briefly).
It was hard to say goodbye again but now I have my October trip to Michigan to look forward
to! I worked with another Global
Explorer’s group in July, they were another great group of students!
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| Mom and I at the Library |
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| Cliver, Mom and I Enjoying the Amazon Mud! |
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| Mom Stealing a Ride with Cliver |
GROWING
Also in July, we started a construction project at the
library. We disassembled a building that
used to be used for our library sewing co-op, and moved it to our main
branch. The new building is about
finished, plus a new porch on the library.
We also had a canoe made for the library, although now the water in the
small river is so low that we can walk across on a log! I have been spending a lot of time at the
library cataloging the new books we received from groups this summer, mostly
donated by an awesome organization, REACH 4 Books. Its kind of a tedious process, but putting
the new books on the shelves is a great feeling!
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| Our New Addition and New Porch |
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| Pirata in our New Canoe |
LIFE IS GOOD
I am happy to share that last week Cliver asked me to be his
wife, and that we will be getting married in October in Michigan!
We couldn’t be happier, Cliver is a wonderful man and I am so glad that
I get to spend my life with him! It is
going to be a bit of a challenge planning a wedding in MI from Peru, but
luckily I have a great family and wonderful friends helping get it all
together! We also plan to get married in
Peru,
but we have not set a date for the big event here, one wedding at a time! October
has been a good month for me the past few years. October 2010 – moved to Peru. October
2011 – I became a Peruvian resident and officially employed by CONAPAC. And now, October 2012 – I get to marry Cliver! Who knows what’s in store for October 2013…
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| Cliver and I in the Canopy |
