Getting to school is no easy task.
A bus picks the teachers up early every morning and takes us down the mountain, through the valley, up the other side and to the little red schoolhouse.  I generally fire up the ole ipod and zone out for the trip.  Well, zone out while simultaneously trying desperately not [...]

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There was a time when I thought a broken heart was the greatest tragedy of all.
Now I know it’s not like that really.  It seems a broken heart is just another one of life’s aches.  An ache that is there within, but that goes unnoticed some days.  It’s a sort of hurt that hides beneath [...]

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School has been out all week due to the landslide situation here in Manizales.  We’re still under red alert and praying against the rain, but teachers came to school today.
We called it a curriculum day in the hopes that we won’t have to extend the year once June rolls around.  (Heaven help me if they [...]

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