The World Changes Every Day

I've really enjoyed "day in the life" posts on other Peace Corps volunteers blogs, and I think I'll try to write several of them during my service.  Even though I'm not a volunteer yet, here's the first - a slice of my life here at Green String Farm in Petaluma where I'm interning until the end of May.  At the farm, I live in a house with 9 other interns.  The house is located a 5 minute walk away from the rest of the farm, where we work. Sometime before 6:30 - Woken up by a friend asking if I want half of the swiss chard fritata she's making for breakfast.  Of course I do! 6:30 -  Went down to the kitchen, said a groggy "good morning" to the others who were up.  Waited for the aforementioned fritata to be ready.  There is a bottleneck at the stove.  Fritata is delayed. 7:00 - Time to start chores.  I and another intern water plants at the greenhouse near our house and apply compost tea to them. 7:10 - I stop back at the house to eat...

I'm going to be blogging for the website time4thinkers off and on over the next few years, about my Peace Corps experience.  For those of you who don't know, time4thinkers is an awesome youth-focused website maintained by the Christian Science church with lots of inspirational resources - such as blog posts.  Here's my first post for them, published a little while ago, about my Peace Corps application process (and yes, rolling a kayak).  You can read it on the site at: http://time4thinkers.com/is-your-life-plan-on-course/.  Is your life plan on course? Have you ever done any white-water kayaking?  My younger brother started to teach me this summer. When going through rapids, a kayaker first plans his “line,” or route, around rocks and other hazards. But even if the line is well-planned, it is possible that something will catch the kayaker off-guard and he will find himself flipped over by the current. Life can be like that too, can’t it? One minute we c...