First of all, that’s right. I arrived here on June 29th, 2018. My life in the Philippines has breached a year and a half. Once reaching the one year mark I began to re-experience a lot of moments for the second time such as All Saints and All Souls Day, Inopacan Day, my birthday, and […]
Pretty ironic how last post I couldn’t believe my work progress and now here I am 4 months later feeling like I haven’t moved. BUT I’m being hypercritical, I know I am, and THAT’s the left-brained, science minded, number driven gal in me. So many things have happened outside the office that are honestly just […]
Pasensya na man! (I’m so sorry!) It’s been a smooth 3 months since my last post. PERO, I’d like to think I’ve lost track of posts because I’ve been putting in some ~serious~ work. Because there is a miraculous amount to catch up on, I’m challenging myself to sum it all up in yet another […]
In a sense, I have been making some MOVES lately. The biggest item on my CRM to do list is to get in the (DAMN) water. But really. Inopacan is home to 4 coral reef ecosystems just off the mainland. 2 are on the smaller scale ~20 ha and the other 2 are fairly large […]
During training, we were told that when we first got to site work would be SLOW, if even existent. Not just a couple days of twiddling your thumbs, mingling with officemates, organizing your desk.. but a couple months. I always knew this was going to be tough for me as I’m incredibly impatient, high energy, […]
Since moving to the Philippines I’m trying to get myself into the habit of journaling. Some weeks I’m on top of it, some weeks I don’t even have the time to take a 2-minute bucket bath much much less write about my feelings. I recently looked back at some of these entries and while I’m […]
HELLO!!!! I had a much more fluid idea for this transition from ACE to Peace Corps but time flies when you’re hella stressed (learning a new language, absorbing a new culture, integrating into a foreign community). This post is finding me a couple days into arriving at my permanent site! By now, I have completed […]
So stoked because we got to camp for my last hitch in the Mojave, YAY for desert skies! By this point, most of the incursions had been successfully covered so this hitch was primarily cross-checking previous work (read: chillin). Day 1: Like most, we stopped by the Ridgecrest house to tool up and in this […]
WOWZA, long time no talk. Don’t worry it’s not you it’s me. These desert days have been flying by and now that we are all comfy with one another, the off days have too. Hitch #4 took us to a new campground within the upper Mojave. We set up to light drizzle and a nice […]
The end of Day 3 was pretty dramatic. We actually finished our work a little early and headed back to camp only to find the main circus tent, containing all our food and water, was practically on its side. The wind was so extreme that day it had ripped several of the stakes out of the […]
Julia Plotkin