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Jules: Waterville, Maine, United States; “Have faith in your dreams and someday. Your rainbow will come shining through. No matter how your heart is grieving if you keep, believing. The dream that you wish will come true.” Twice a year I'm afforded a luxury some will never know. I visit, volunteer, live, laugh, learn, and, love -local families in Central America. Who knows where my next adventure will land me... My goals are simple improve my Spanish & volunteer myself to organizations committed to improving the lives of its community members, as well providing my own personal gift of backpacks to school children. As a crossover educator I love bringing two worlds together; teaching Central Americans about Americans and Americans about Central Americans (sometimes it is more of the ladder). Having visited beautiful countries such as Guatemala and Nicaragua both having been rocked by war, disease, poverty, lack of education medical care, nutrition, and natural disaster... I hope you will enjoy my efforts to blog, educate and just enjoy the freedom of writing.

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Guatemala '10

we helped build a home for these children

Guatemala 2010

Common Hope

Guatemala '10

some of the construction team

Guatemala

Only Female Coffee Grower with As Green As It Gets

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

Samuel sharing some of his beautiful artwork

Guatemala click on the picture to see more of his amazing artwork

Common Hope '11

last day of construction at Common Hope

Panajachel, Guatemala 2010

my three little friends

San Miguel, Guatemala 2011

Family from San Miguel

To know what you know and to know what you don't know, that is real wisdom.

A day at Casa de Cultura

some of the children who lost their homes during the hurricane

Common Hope

Woman and her daughter weaving

Children of Common Hope

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Some of my beautiful family

Happy Holidays

TJ prom night

"Wasn't me"

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Jami, Aicha, & Tj

Aicha's Graduation from Colby

Truth quenches untruth,
love quenches anger,
self-suffering quenches violence.
This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

Common Hope

cook stoves supplied to Familias en necesidad

San Marcos la Laguna

Guatemala 2011

Jules & Jewles

Casa Rosario San Pedro La Laguna Guatemala

Coffee Break at Common Hope

con mi amigos

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Volcan Pacaya, Guatemala pre-eruption

the view from Pacaya Guatemala...lava flowing just feet in front of us

"Dear Amigo" letter

Nicaraguan student reading her 'dear amigo' letter from America

Guatemala 2010

Chillin on the steps of the plaza

At the top of the oldest cathedral in Central America

Leon, Nicaragua

chillin in the hood

Nicaragua 2011

Nicaraguan student writing back to an American student

"There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally."
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Mumma, Jami, Me, & Daddy

Binks Graduation Day

Kameswarie, Myself & Roja

Roja Graduation from Colby

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
~ Henry David Thoreau

Guatemala '11

Backpacks for Nica '11 Central Maine recipients

Vassalboro Students who wrote to the Nicaraguan Students

"Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us."
~Sir Thomas Brown

Acadia National Park

Summer '11

Beachn it!

La Mariposa

just outside my cabin door...

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. ~Ashley Smith

Easter Dinner

Tj, myself and Jami

Eiffel Tower Paris, France

ooola la tre magnifique!

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

Me & Bud

Buds Big BUCK

Strawberry fields forever...

Tj, Myself, & Jami

"You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."
~Charles Bruxton

Bud's Graduation

‎"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Back packs for Nica'12 Donations

Escuela de Panama

just a few of the faces of the students who received a backpack and letter from Maine who also wrote back to the students at the Vassalboro Community School

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Panama Kids

children playing outside of la escuela de Panama in Nicaragua

Nicaragua '11

All of these children lost their home during the hurricane...from landslides and severe rain storms

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See no, Hear no, Speak no

Juan & Rosaria ~San Pedro la Laguna Guatemala

just a few of my favorites that inspire me

A long way gone
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Beloved
Collected Novellas
First they killed my father
Half the sky
Here if you need me
I Rigoberta Menchu,
In The Time Of Butterflies
Inhabited Woman
Living Downstream
Middlesex
Octavia E. Butler
Open Viens
Refuge
Suite Francaise
The Country Under My Skin
The Discomfort Zone
The Inhabited Woman
The Kings Rifle
The Kite Runner
The Love Wife
The Story Of Stuff
Things Fall Apart
Without a Map

At the base of Masaya

Volcan Masaya, Nicaragua

Interested in doing a little volunteering of your own, check out these amazing organizations:

El Salvador Spanish School
Guacamaya School
Lost Canyon Nature Reserve
La Mariposa
Casa Rosario
The GOD's Child Project
As Green As It Gets
Common Hope

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Quite the hike

Pacaya

'Fish Face'

Rosaria, Juan & Jules

As Green As It Gets

Fredy and I

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Mayan Art

Coffee grower finds...

National Bird in Nicaragua

Guardabarranco

“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”

Jules working at Common Hope

Boys of Pacaya region

coffee time!

"Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours."
~Swedish Proverb