(Twenty Eight Hours Later! Sometimes I really outdo myself. It really was about twenty eight hours between waking up at my grandma’s house and going to bed in San José).
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Let’s play a game. It’s called ‘Testing Your Limits’. Continue reading
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I spent three weeks being a tourist and a further four months volunteering in a women’s rights organisation in the small town of San Ramón. Hopefully some day I’ll even out the balance, but for now there’s a lot more content about my backpacking days!
July 3, 2011 · 12:15 am
Episode Twenty Eight – Hours Later
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June 30, 2011 · 7:50 pm
Episode Twenty Seven – How to volunteer in Costa Rica
“It’s Thursday, June thirtieth, twenty eleven” says the presenter of my favourite high-tech, low-brow podcast, in his normal tone. It’s almost as though today might as well be any other day. Isn’t it strange how different everyone’s perspectives are? He was probably thinking “It’s Thursday – almost the weekend”, or “We’re coming up to the 4th of July”. I’m sitting here in my big, empty white room (well, it would be empty if there weren’t three clothes driers airing out practically every garment I own); and to me, today is not ‘nearly the fourth of July’: it is my last day in Scotland. By the weekend I’ll have begun episode twenty eight of my life, and I’ll have begun it in Costa Rica. Continue reading →
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