Edmonton, Canada | Wed Mar 10, 2010 | Views: 9

I've been accepted by Pro World to go on an awesome Mexican Adventure in Oaxaca from May 1-14!! I was so excited that last night, I could barely sleep! This entry will be a little about me, why I chose to apply to Pro World and why I'm so excited for this!!My name is Jacquie Lycka. I am just finishing up my fourth year of a Bachelor of Arts with …

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My Mexican Adventure

Urubamba, Peru | Wed Mar 10, 2010 | Views: 60

After a slightly frustrating week of unreturned phone calls, failed appointments and wild goose chases, Friday finally brought  a little sunshine (literally and figuratively).   The day began at 6:00am after only a few hours of sleep (thanks to yet another lengthy late-night battle with Charlotte III), but I was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with anticipation of one of my all-time favorite pastimes: subjecting ambition and inexperienced young men to my workout …

kwilliams
Peru March

Urubamba, Peru | Mon Mar 01, 2010 | Views: 1588

Maybe sometimes you have to leave the party to hear the music… I had to climb 1,000 feet above Urubamba before I realized how much I loved the little valley town.  From the top of the Cross Mountain on the first rainless day in weeks, I started feeling a little sentimental.  The new vantage point offered me a dustless, odorless and almost noiseless view of Urubamba (I say almost noiseless because …

kwilliams
Peru Feburary

Calgary, Canada | Thu Feb 18, 2010 | Views: 43

Got nothing to write yet except the pre-jitters.  

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First trip to Belize!

Urubamba, Peru | Wed Feb 03, 2010 | Views: 2184

For the dew days after the first flooding, we were all running around doing random projects to help refugees.  We carried spaghetti, bread and hot chocolate for over 100 peopleit accross a sketchy bridge and through washed out railroad tracks and serve it to the line of desperate and pushy people in near darkness and strong winds.  But somehow I never really got the warm fuzzies.  (I feel like a jerk for saying …

kwilliams
Peru January