the perfect year
Tuesday evening: "Dinner and chocolate-making for dessert (students learn to prepare homemade chocolate from the cacao bean)"
Wednesday evening: "Dinner and coffee roasting/grinding (prepare coffee 'from the bean to the cup')"
Did these people specifically start this farm in order to cater to my every desire??
Volunteering at an Ecuadorian organic farm for a few months? OK, I think I've just about rounded off a perfect year.
First, a trip to Mongolia, a few months at a Quaker house in Mexico City, a few months in Senegal, and now a few months at this organic farm in Ecuador. MAKING MY OWN CHOCOLATE AND COFFEE!! Good grief - it's as though I died and went to heaven. If I believed in heaven. Which I don't.
I know my students - and probably everybody else - thinks I'm crazy for working and saving my money just to be able to volunteer. But, it's rewarding in a way that others find cruises and Mercedes rewarding.
I'm beginning to seriously think that even if I am accepted to law school that I should put it off a year. Once I become a lawyer, I won't have the time to take off a year to go sleep in a yak tent and make my own chocolate and chill with Quakers and stalk Youssou N'Dour in his home country. I'll have the money to do those things on my one week off a year, but I won't have the time.
Ugh. Just got email from Dayton and he's doing the Leo pride hurt thing. Whatever. I've made up my mind and I'm moving on, and he can call me unreasonably impatient and demanding all he wants. Of course I am, I never said I wasn't. He's so angry that his usual careful speech is nearly incomprehensible. His trip to Cote d'Ivoire was really the beginning of the end for us. Sigh. It's so hard - I love him so much, but there are things I won't accept - such as being an adulteress. Sigh.
Note: When taking off a year and traveling the world, when meeting the perfect man don't be heartbroken when it doesn't work out.
Wednesday evening: "Dinner and coffee roasting/grinding (prepare coffee 'from the bean to the cup')"
Did these people specifically start this farm in order to cater to my every desire??
Volunteering at an Ecuadorian organic farm for a few months? OK, I think I've just about rounded off a perfect year.
First, a trip to Mongolia, a few months at a Quaker house in Mexico City, a few months in Senegal, and now a few months at this organic farm in Ecuador. MAKING MY OWN CHOCOLATE AND COFFEE!! Good grief - it's as though I died and went to heaven. If I believed in heaven. Which I don't.
I know my students - and probably everybody else - thinks I'm crazy for working and saving my money just to be able to volunteer. But, it's rewarding in a way that others find cruises and Mercedes rewarding.
I'm beginning to seriously think that even if I am accepted to law school that I should put it off a year. Once I become a lawyer, I won't have the time to take off a year to go sleep in a yak tent and make my own chocolate and chill with Quakers and stalk Youssou N'Dour in his home country. I'll have the money to do those things on my one week off a year, but I won't have the time.
Ugh. Just got email from Dayton and he's doing the Leo pride hurt thing. Whatever. I've made up my mind and I'm moving on, and he can call me unreasonably impatient and demanding all he wants. Of course I am, I never said I wasn't. He's so angry that his usual careful speech is nearly incomprehensible. His trip to Cote d'Ivoire was really the beginning of the end for us. Sigh. It's so hard - I love him so much, but there are things I won't accept - such as being an adulteress. Sigh.
Note: When taking off a year and traveling the world, when meeting the perfect man don't be heartbroken when it doesn't work out.
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