Introduction, travel companion and Trip Plan

Welcome to my blog! Hopefully this project will allow me to process my experiences by way of writing about them as well as provide a way for all of you who have helped me to make this trip happen a way to follow my progress. In a sense this blog is then a thank you to everyone who has helped with gear purchases and encouraged me. I will attempt to update this blog whenever possible, of course, depending on the availability of Internet connection and my schedule the number of blogs could vary. Also important to note is that this is my first blog so if I make some 'rookie-blog error' (like a 'nube'?) that is probably the reason.

I will be travelling with my good friend Jordon Keller. Jordon is also a Junior at Whitworth University, he is pictured here with Ariella, Heidi, and I:


Just to outline the plan up to this point. On Jan 1 I will be boarding a plane to Guatemala to start a new year and a new adventure. During January I will be at a language school in Guatemala in a town named Xela with a group from Whitworth. At the language school I will receive 5 hours of language instruction every day, the rest of my time will be spent in cultural and volunteer activities as coordinated by the faculty leader. On January 25 Jordon and I will seperate from the group and take a long bus ride to Honduras where we will be doing an internship with Union Biblica Honduras and Proyecto Aldea Global. Then on March 1 we will fly from Tegucigalpa to Lima, Peru and then to Cuzco, Peru. In Cuzco our main activity will be a 4 day hike on the Incan Trail to various Incan ruins, culminating in our visiting Machu Picchu. We will arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 9. After a orientation we will begin classes at Universidad del Salvador which we will continue until July 5th when we fly back to Seattle.


Thanks for reading and hopefully this will be a good tool to keep people updated!