Author Archive | Ariana

Since Hurricane Katrina hit, I have been down to the Gulf Coast eight times with the Youth Leadership Council of a group called the Howell PAL (Police Athletic League). I have chaperoned various trips, including several leadership conferences across the country, for them and more recently, started a dance studio this past summer for them back home […]

Got to measure and weigh baby sea turtles the other week at the marine park! I’ve never held something so precious

words cannot even explain my experience in cuba, so here are some pics to show what was by far the best week of my entire life  

cleaning the algae off of shanada the sea turtle (she is missing a fin) shanada eating (you can see on the left she lost her fin) the shark tank that i clean (you can see one of the shark’s fins towards the top of the picture) ok so now here is an explanation of the caption […]

pictured above is one of the dinners i came home to one night. the thing literally still had a full set of teeth and eyes, like eyelids and everything. my first instinct was to cry since the thing was literally frowning, but since my home stay mom seemed so excited for me to try it, i […]

Sorry guys that i am going out of order, but i figured my story from last night when my parents and grandparents who are visiting took my host family out to dinner (9/17/12) would go great with my last roof catastrophe post. ^the note my parents and grandparents left me on my school’s front door […]

What is pictured below may simply seem like the view from my balcony, but of course, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for me. Let me explain my first extreme failure of my study abroad journey in Puntarenas, Costa Rica…. So there is a guy named Joey from California who is fluent in English and […]