Te con Leche, walk the earf: Archive

Tanto Tiempo Hello everyone, it’s been a little while, huh? Now that I have a little break from work and I’m not exhausted, I’ll catch y’all up on what I’ve been up to. Right now I’m in Aguascalientes, Mexico. I’ve been here for 2 1/2 weeks and will be here for another week 1/2. I left the cast in Finland to come to Mexico early cuz I was...

May 17th

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Changes

I’ve noticed a very real and very fundamental change within myself. I am happy, all the time. Everything we do from education workshops, dance warmups, performing, CI… I am able to find joy in everything we’re doing. I have changed from liking this program, to loving it. I think it is rare to realize how much you love something as you’re doing it, usually, or a lot of...

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Apr 8th

easters

So, Happy Easter everyone! Danish Easter is indeed a day of merriment. We got to sleep in really late, which these days means about 10:00. We got up and went easter egg hunting with their two daughters and son, but it really wasn’t like American easter. We hunted but each of us only had to find one thing, and that was a tremendous plastic easter egg with all kinds of goodies inside. ...

Apr 8th

EEuurrooppee

So, here I am. Actually I have been here for like 3 weeks but have had a tough time coming by a house with internet sooo writing in my blog has been difficult. That’s a little bit of a lame excuse because I have had some chances but have also just been too lazy, apologies. Anyways I’m in Denmark now and am fixin’ to go to Norway here in a couple of days, but I thought...

Apr 7th

herro

Heeelllooo So we leave for Europe tomorrow. Goin to Belgium where we shall stay for 3 weeks or so, then on to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland (for everyone else, I’ll explain in a minute). I already know that I’m gonna be hosted by a family of one of the people in the cast, along with 5 other cast members. This means that basically we’ll just be hangin out with like 6...

Mar 18th

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Life is Good. Here I am, kickin it in good ol’ Tucson Ay Zee. This video is of a hike that me and roommate Max went on today, which was a lot of fun and the weather was absolutely perfect, which is perfect. Our host family is a nice old couple with two tiny little dogs and a sweet house with an incredible view of all the different kinds of cactus arizona has to offer. We have gone...

Mar 12th

Laying in bed. I’ve been without rugby for 7 months now. Is it bad that I can’t get to sleep because all I can think about is smashing some fool as hard as I can? I miss rugby dude.

Mar 6th

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This, is what's up

Fort Collins Experience Wow a week on the road has come and gone. After a whole month of staging in Denver one week flies by and we land in the lap of another family gracious enough to take us in. I believe that means it’s time to take a nice little reflection over the past week’s happenings. A little cogitating never hurts and personally it helps me see in retrospect what I may...

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Jan 31st

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Refreshed and So Clean, Clean So this weekend was saweet. Our host family the Wilkie’s have a nice little cabin right on the Wyoming Colorado border and we booked it up there on Friday. We stayed there two nights and just chillaxed. We got there on Friday night and started to settle in. We played a game called Phase 10 for awhile which was a lot of fun cuz I hadn’t played that...

Jan 31st

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My host parents Raelene and Andre at the Grizzly Rose tonight. We line danced and two stepped the night away.

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Crunk With People →

This dude spencer in our group is a dj and remixed this song for our culture jam. I danced w a group as well still trying to get that video.

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Our host mom took us on a hike this saturday! More pictures to come

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Kiwi! link →

My Kiwi Moment So, we watched this cartoon in one of our workshops and they asked us to think about when the kiwi is comfortable, when he is challenged, and when he panics. The point of the workshop was to get us to sort of center ourselves. They don’t want us to be comfortable in UWP with what we do cuz that’s not how you grow as a person, but it’s very destructive to...

Jan 15th

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Jan 14th

This Wazzup

Mother do not worry (I doubt you were very worried), I’m having a vonderful time. We have been spending the week learning part of our performance. Each day we have a a time set for singing, or cast vocals, a time for cast movement which is basically dance, and some workshops. The workshops are primarily about thinking about different cultures and why different cultures do what they do...

Jan 14th

Texas Roadhouse?

Done. These Belgian and Japanese chicks boutta get their worlds rocked

Jan 14th

Turtles? Tigghhtt →

Jan 11th

Boom, up with people

Yo, I’m here. In fact, we all are. Brief recap of last week or so 1. Went with family to Denver to see family. Hung out with g-rents, exchanged more prezzies and feasted on the finest. Saw my not-so-little-anymore nephs and exchanged more prezzies (we do that) and made some No-bake Cookies - look it up. 2. My immediate family (Mother Cyndie, Father Scott, and Sister Mitchell, and...

Jan 8th

Glad we stayed in town

So Marc and I haven’t been able to do much traveling since we’ve been down here. We went to Hanmer for a relaxing day and to Dunedin for the All Blacks, but we had heard of this place called Queenstown that apparently is a very cool place with tons of stuff to do for tourists. We had planned on going during the middle of last week, but due to people saying that they would go and then backing out...

Aug 21st

Ssoooooo things are starting to wind down. We played the last match of the season this past Saturday, which was miserable. The day was actually beautiful but it was D2 (D1 had already finished), the match didn’t mean anything so no one was motivated to try that hard so I got super frustrated and started making stupid mistakes which frustrated me more, then I started getting hurt (not injured,...

Aug 13th

Game. Over.

Sup dudes sorry for the bloggorial hiatus I’ve just been… well, lazy let’s be honest. Catching up on the last two weeks. So we got a couple of snow days… In Sumner it didn’t snow an outrageous amount, only a couple of inches, but apparently in the city they got nearly a foot. Marc and I just drove out to the mall and saw a bunch of rugby pitches covered with what looked like a half a foot of...

Aug 2nd

arrgghhh

We lost 30-27. Absolute heartbreaker too cuz we were handling the match, the score after 20 was 27-7 us, and then over the course of the game we couldn’t convert penalties and they slotted every penalty and conversion attempt. We had a chance in injury time to tie it up but we missed a penalty kick from the 10 meter line a little to the side of the posts; tough kick but man that would have been...

Jul 16th

So I started for Div 1. We ended up losing the match by five, which was a shame cuz we played awesomely in the first half and were up by eleven but then let it all get away from us. Dad I know what you mean about just trying not to be a weakness on the field cuz that’s exactly what I felt like. I was playing 6 and really feel like I got chewed up and spit out at the end, very physical, very...

Jul 15th

promise a post for this weekend is coming just been super busy/tired, but its coming, its coming…. in other news scientists have just completed a breakthrough study which attempts to answer the question “Can bees think?” The answer they found is no, they cannot.

Jul 12th

Bucketsss!

This weekend was one of highs and lows, lineout throws, movin up for average joes, confidence grows, gettin throwed, goofy fashion shows and cheering crowd “whoa’s”. I played, once again, a lot of rugby this weekend. I started out playing 8 man for D2 and was told, since D1 and D2 play at different times, that I would only play 55 minutes in the first game along with another dude doing the same...

Jul 5th

Conor's Nervous

So, tomorrow we play rugby. Once again D2 number 8 in ur programs number 1 in your heart. Let me preface my explanation of my nervousness with a little background information. D1 picks its starting said and then announces its reserves. The thing is, though, that they leave two reserve spots open to fill on the day, and whether you get chosen to fill those spots depends mostly on if your hot...

Jul 1st

almost done with my second book

This feels like a high school summer vacation to be honest. I sleep in as late as I want, don’t do anything all day, it’s getting pretty boring. The great thing is that I came here to play rugby and that I am doing, so the boredom during the day is tolerable. I was talking about this with Wade the other day and you need to have some sort of purpose, this is what I was missing in...

Jun 28th

This week has only been semi interesting so far. Tomorrow is Wed and we haven’t been able to work this week so that is slightly worrisome, even though any random thing could come along on any day so it’s not like the end of the world or anything. The head coach of our team, who has been away on business I believe, is back in town and with the club and it’s super nice having him. The dude’s...

Jun 28th

Jun 26th

80 minutes D2

So the week went by and the weekend finally came, Saturday is a rugby day. At the training on Thursday we were told which games we would be playing; Chase would be starting hooker for Div 2 I was going to be a reserve backrow. I was told that if we wanted to after the D2 game that D3 would need reserves, so I figured I would get 10-15 minutes at D2 and then head over for maybe a half at D3. It...

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Oct 3rd

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Sep 24th

South is Different Than Central

I love Argentina, but at night and in the mornings i sure do miss Costa Rica. When i go to bed hearing ambulances and wake up in the morning to jackhammers, it makes me realize the little things about Costa Rica that, even though I noticed them at the time, I didn’t really understand how much they comforted me. Por ejemplo, at night I look out my window here and see other high rise...

Sep 16th