What's the plan?

Soooo.... what’s the big plan that'll keep me away from this...

bottom photo by marouli

and this...

photo by marouli

and, most importantly, from this: 

this summer?

While visiting the TIES conference in the States last year, M. met the manager of an amazing place. Located in St John, in the US Virgin Islands  (a tiny little place in the Carribean, somewhere near Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic – woohoo!), Maho Bay is one of the first real eco-resorts in the world. It offers accommodation in little tents/bungalows, hidden in luscious vegetation, and with only one luxury: that of going back to a simpler kind of life, where only the necessary is, well, necessary. 

Back to the plan: this amazing place is partly volunteer-run.  It offers  a work exchange program that allows people from  all over the world to work a few hours a day in exchange for  the possibility of spending a month in, well, heaven (if the pictures are anything to go by).  Obviously, it’s crazy difficult to land a spot on the volunteer program, but M. , who will be doing actual work there for some time, managed to get me in as well – I’m so excited about spending the summer together and learning new things! (so thanks again for organizing this maimoudaki – and brace yourself for an amazing summer) As I said, M. will be doing actual work, since he’ll be standing in for the manager for some time – so he’ll be sort of my boss! Hehe. Quite cool.  

So this is the main plan for the summer. I won’t bore anyone with the actual organization process, so I’ll basically start writing when I get there. I might however get back here from time to time if I can’t contain my enthusiasm – and since M. is notoriously bad at expressing his enthusiasm, as well as at reacting in a satisfactory and appropriate manner to that of other people, this blog might be my only outlet ;-) 

Let me just leave you now with a view of Maho Bay: 

source: http://www.maho.org

I can't wait!