Last week in the beautiful Puerto Rico! This week we have 3 group projects, today, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Students and their parents mainly from Virginia will be working with us both today and tomorrow. Today we went to Isla Verde beach to plant all the seeds I’ve been extracting to expand the vegetation in the Continue reading

Sundays are always so nice! I woke up and took a lovely walk on the beach then came back to get ready to go out to Loíza. I promised Christian I’d show him before I leave because it was my favorite beach I’ve been to. He picked me up around 1 and the beach is Continue reading

Today was extremely lazy, as I knew it would be. I slept in super late. When I finally got up I ate an apple and headed to the beach then slept again… but this time on the beach. I went back to the hostel after a couple hours because I remembered I had homework. So Continue reading

Welcome back! Today started out lovely with Yvette and Juan’s favorite place superfoods. We were a bit tired today so we started the morning with smoothies! Juan is close buddies with the workers so we got to just hang out in their with the dogs for a bit before the work day started. It’s walking Continue reading

I bet you’re all excited for this one based off the title but, let’s start out with what I did volunteering today. Today we went back into El Yunque to one of their local schools to teach young kids about what we do for the community and what they can do to help out on Continue reading

Oh my goodness today was so fun! First I had volunteering and now that I’m alone with Juan and Yvette it feels so much more personal. I’m learning so much! I even got keys and got to open up the garden on my own! I went in and started extracting seeds while waiting for Yvette Continue reading

Heyyyy, today once again I woke up to volunteer in the garden! As you know yesterday we left seeds out to dry so today we planted them all, it took forever! In total, I planted 62 seeds individually. Besides that and watering all the plants there was nothing else to do so I headed back Continue reading

As of now, sadly I only have 2 weeks left! I started the day with accidentally waking up a tad late so I got ready, grabbed an apple, and headed to the garden. Today we got to compost again and collect more seeds! As it did before the compost stank but I got the hang Continue reading

Hello! Although I’m sad my new friends are gone today was quite nice being alone. I didn’t have volunteering today so I was free to do whatever I wanted. I spent the day at the beach for the most part, then did lots of school work, and research for future travel plans! Later at night Continue reading

After our wonderful last night out, it was time for Nastassia to leave this morning. Belle and I had the rest of the day together but Nastassia’s had an 11 am flight so we all said goodbye. After she left Belle and I really had no plan for the day other than fixing her broken Continue reading