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!