after searching throughout eternity (aka a semester), after battling monsters (aka ignoring everyone saying they didn't come in season until july), i traveled far and wide (aka. to the mercado central) aaaaand found them.
yum.
revel in their beauty.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
study abroad success
study abroad success = (for me) mamones chinos!!!!!!!!!
after searching throughout eternity (aka a semester), after battling monsters (aka ignoring everyone saying they didn't come in season until july), i traveled far and wide (aka. to the mercado central) aaaaand found them.
yum.
revel in their beauty.
after searching throughout eternity (aka a semester), after battling monsters (aka ignoring everyone saying they didn't come in season until july), i traveled far and wide (aka. to the mercado central) aaaaand found them.
yum.
revel in their beauty.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
um, excuse me???
ONE WEEK.
last night i said my first good-bye. and tonight another. and they'll keep adding up from here. :(
one of the girls in my program, with all her wisdom and perspective, mentioned a few days ago that for many people who come to costa rica, 7 days is their whole trip. They zip from one coast to the other and hit a few attractions in between, lay on the beach, take some pictures, and leave. for me, these next six days seem totally inadequate. there's so much left to do. so so much. as with so many things, it's a situation filled with mixed emotions. but complexity is good, and each time we end an experience we (hopefully) are able to better reflect on it, better learn from it. enshallah, right?
"See ye no strangers; rather see all men as friends, for love and unity come hard when ye fix your gaze on otherness." -Abdu’l-Bahá
"Soon will your swiftly-passing days be over, and the fame and riches, the comforts, the joys provided by this rubbish-heap, the world, will be gone without a trace. Summon ye, then, the people to God, and invite humanity to follow the example of the Company on high. Be ye loving fathers to the orphan, and a refuge to the helpless, and a treasury for the poor, and a cure for the ailing. Be ye the helpers of every victim of oppression, the patrons of the disadvantaged. Think ye at all times of rendering some service to every member of the human race. Pay ye no heed to aversion and rejection, to disdain, hostility, injustice: act ye in the opposite way. Be ye sincerely kind, not in appearance only. Let each one of God’s loved ones centre his attention on this: to be the Lord’s mercy to man; to be the Lord’s grace. Let him do some good to every person whose path he crosseth, and be of some benefit to him. Let him improve the character of each and all, and reorient the minds of men. In this way, the light of divine guidance will shine forth, and the blessings of God will cradle all mankind: for love is light, no matter in what abode it dwelleth; and hate is darkness, no matter where it may make its nest.” -Abdu’l-Bahá
last night i said my first good-bye. and tonight another. and they'll keep adding up from here. :(
one of the girls in my program, with all her wisdom and perspective, mentioned a few days ago that for many people who come to costa rica, 7 days is their whole trip. They zip from one coast to the other and hit a few attractions in between, lay on the beach, take some pictures, and leave. for me, these next six days seem totally inadequate. there's so much left to do. so so much. as with so many things, it's a situation filled with mixed emotions. but complexity is good, and each time we end an experience we (hopefully) are able to better reflect on it, better learn from it. enshallah, right?
"See ye no strangers; rather see all men as friends, for love and unity come hard when ye fix your gaze on otherness." -Abdu’l-Bahá
"Soon will your swiftly-passing days be over, and the fame and riches, the comforts, the joys provided by this rubbish-heap, the world, will be gone without a trace. Summon ye, then, the people to God, and invite humanity to follow the example of the Company on high. Be ye loving fathers to the orphan, and a refuge to the helpless, and a treasury for the poor, and a cure for the ailing. Be ye the helpers of every victim of oppression, the patrons of the disadvantaged. Think ye at all times of rendering some service to every member of the human race. Pay ye no heed to aversion and rejection, to disdain, hostility, injustice: act ye in the opposite way. Be ye sincerely kind, not in appearance only. Let each one of God’s loved ones centre his attention on this: to be the Lord’s mercy to man; to be the Lord’s grace. Let him do some good to every person whose path he crosseth, and be of some benefit to him. Let him improve the character of each and all, and reorient the minds of men. In this way, the light of divine guidance will shine forth, and the blessings of God will cradle all mankind: for love is light, no matter in what abode it dwelleth; and hate is darkness, no matter where it may make its nest.” -Abdu’l-Bahá
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