Bottle School Project with Hug it Forward Reflections from Tecpan, Guatemala July 2023 Wrapping up an incredibly meaningful experience with my son in Guatemala! We finished tying up the 10,000 bottles filled with inorganic trash in the three classrooms we…
Mayan Culture and History – Guatemala
Mayan Culture and History were integral parts of our overall service, learning, culture, history, and volunteer work in Guatemala. Iximiche and Antigua visits during our time in Guatemala in between and following bottle school construction projects enhanced the cultural immersion…
Education is Life
I’m a fan of the Apple TV show “Ted Lasso” and one of the characters, Dani Rojas, has a saying “futbol is life” … so, in the spirit of Dani Rojas, “Education is Life” is the title of this blog…
Guatemala Service Trip Culture School Building 2023
Guatemala 2023 Tecpan, Guatemala July 2023 Justin (my son) and I ventured from Chicago to Miami and from Miami to Guatemala City, Guatemala. We are serving, learning, exploring, and traveling to Guatemala with Hug it Forward, https://hugitforward.org/ , on a…
Final Reflections – DR Service Trip 2022
“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”– Jana Stanfield August 10, 2022 Justin and I finished our amazing adventures and life-changing trip with so many peak…
4th in a series -Dominican Republic Service, Mission, Culture Trip Reflections 2022
In this post, I am sharing more reflections, thoughts and images from a LifeTouch Memory Mission reunion trip to the Dominican Republic, to Constanza, La Vega, to the Cecaini School in Rio Grande. On these several blog posts, I’m sharing…
Third in a series on Dominican Republic Service trip 2022
Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful & fulfilled life.” – Jack Canfield Back in 2016, I was lucky enough to be a part of the LifeTouch Memory Mission trip to the Dominican Republic and I…
More Reflections – Dominican Republic Service & Culture Trip 2022 – 2
This summer, July 30-August 6, I went on a reunion trip to the Dominican Republic, to Constanza, La Vega, to the Cecaini School in Rio Grande. On the next few posts, I’m sharing my reflections. Once major personal “peak moment”…
Mission, Culture & Service Trip to Dominican Republic – 2022
Back in 2016, I was lucky enough to be a part of the LifeTouch Memory Mission trip to the Dominican Republic and I was a representative of AASA, The Superintendent’s Association. I wrote about that set of life-changing experiences on…
Post 2 of 2 – Global Service – Dominican Republic- IASA 2021
Post 2 -IASA Global Service Trip – Dominican Republic October 2021 This is the second post describing and documenting a global service trip I had the opportunity to attend in the Dominican Republic with 30 colleagues. Each member of this…