The other week we helped run a camp for the students visiting from Manila. They attend Raya, which is an alternative private school. Tito Tony always told us that most Filipinos have a desire to be white and westernized. I never really believed him until I met these kids. I have interacted with other kids… Continue reading Weeds, Guts, and Kids
What have I been doing the past few weeks? Quite a lot actually. I have not been able to start the bamboo experiment yet but I have been helping along with other experiments. It has been a great experience so far! So when I last left off it was tasked with creating a partition in… Continue reading The Feeding Games
So mangos are slowly taking over my life… Like I’m not mad because they’re delicious but having to cut mangoes for like an hour a day does get on your nerves. The farm harvested at least a ton of mangoes and so we’ve been making mango jam, mango purée, and just cutting it up to… Continue reading Sipping on a blizzard and slicing up some gizzards.
Who would have thought that I, Chris Taraszka, would be living on a farm. This is no IWU: there is no coffee shoppe for me to spend my day at, no constant WiFi connection, no Netflix. I must say though, life here is pretty great. My sleep schedule has never been so consistent. We wake… Continue reading The Farm Life that Chose Me
So, I left the United States practically a week ago and what a journey it has been. I am losing track of time already and I feel as though we have been on the farm for a month even though it has been about 4 and a half days. At first, I was slightly skeptical… Continue reading Disescting GK
Talk about #Foodgasm. I used to be really picky about what food I would eat but because of my recent travels, I began to push myself to eat different food. I have not regretted it! I have absolutely loved the food we have eaten so far. Low-key, while we were on our layover in Tokyo,… Continue reading #Foodgasm
So, we have been in the Philippines for less than 48 hours at the time I am writing this. It has felt like a week since we have left the States. I left home to head to O’Hare around 3:30 am on Thursday June 9th. We had an hour and a half flight to Minneapolis,… Continue reading Hello from the Other Side
So, in about 12 hours I will begin my day long journey to the Philippines. Low key, it still hasn’t hit me that I’m actually going. I didn’t want to really think about it until last week because that is when I went to get my visa so it would be all official. But now,… Continue reading The Whirlwind
Chicken State of Mind 