Life at site is super busy right now, as we’re right in the middle of summer Culture Camp. We’ll tell you more about that later, but as for now, we thought we’d share a little about our trip home last month. Here was our rough itinerary:
June 1- Matt flies to Buffalo, NY to spend time with his family. (Matt had an extra 3 weeks, as Julie took 3 weeks for Africa in April.)
June 17- Matt hits the road with his mom to do a little East coast road trip.
June 20-Julie flies in to Portland, Maine to meet up with Matt and Judy.
June 21/22- We spend roughly 24 hours checking out Unity, ME, where we hope to ‘settle down’ post-PC.
June 23- We’re all back in Buffalo to spend a couple days chilling out there.
June 25- We fly to Chicago to spend a week with Julie’s family.
It’s hard to know what to share, what all of you might be interested in. I’m sure if we really tried hard we could come up with some insightful parallels, or ironic symbolism. We could probably talk about the paved, flat roads; how for our whole trip, we didn’t get begged once, or harassed, or stared at; that everybody seems to follow the rules and that there seems to be a system for everything; how people were so nice; how we ate like kings (and got fat too! The first thing Julie heard stepping out of the airport, from one of our close Jamaican friends was, “Julie, you put on a whole heap a weight!”) ; how life is so easy, and comfortable and convenient –you want anything in the world, you just hop in your car and go get it; to have intellectual conversations; how we didn’t have to think about Jamaica, or site, or the poor, and the cumbersome and difficult task daily to give them opportunity for a better life. But, to be honest, our brains are fried, especially with Culture Camp, so consider yourselves lucky to be getting even a blogpost. So let’s just summarize with this:
As far as vacations go, our trip back home was AMAZING. It was hard to leave….so thanks to all our friends and family who gave us the break we needed.
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