Memoirs of a Redhead

I’m a teacher.  And because people are kind and interested, they ask me what I’m up to this summer, since I have no school.  It’s a valid question, and one that I must answer quite often.  I’ve already been to Philly to visit family, and Guatemala for a missions trip. …

I admit that I can be easily entertained at times:)  Being from Philly, I say some things a little differently…like "coffee" as "cawfee" or every now and then "water" comes out as "wooder".  This can happen especially after a full weekend with my parents and my brother Todd.  Todd’s a…

Manos de Jesus-Hands of Jesus.  That’s the organization that we’re working with here. One of the key aspects to the organization is the feeding program.  They feed over 1500 kids a couple times a week, but before the kids eat they get experience kids’ church…it’s a whole lot of fun! …

**Due to technical difficulties, this post is actually from Sunday:) I just paid cinco quetzales for a picture with this little girl.  (7.5 Q’s are $1, so…) She followed my friends, Joe and Elizabeth Foote (the Feet:) and me around the market for about 15 minutes.  I started talking to…

Okay, so today was hilarious.  Looking back, I have to laugh at the adventure of it all.  First of all, you can check out the video post below to see a snipet of what it was like for us to get to the locations to build.  Up and down the…

Today (Friday) was amazing.  I’m tired, but it was amazing.  I hit a hammer into wood for the first time today.  Knowing that this was not going to be my specialty, I mostly held wood for others to pound nails into, but a few nails I did drive home:)  (I…

So, in order to get to the places where we were building, we stood up in the back of pickup trucks…for about 40 minutes:) Check out a piece of our ride.

I think that’s how you say it!  Anyway, after a long day of travelling through a couple airports…and long, windy (with a long I) roads, we’re here!  This mission house that we’re staying in, here in Chichicastenango is absolutely beautiful and is quite a haven in the middle of the…

I’m a fan of many things including: my church ministry my pastor’s preaching my friends blogging jogging teaching 4th grade Hanley International Academy my family caribou coffee …and I’m going through withdrawal of several of those things.  Can you tell on #5?  This is my 4th post tonight!  up until…

In 12 Hours (and a few minutes) my plane will take off from the Detroit Metro Airport and I will be on my way to Chichicastenango, Guatemala.  I’m quite excited and a little nervous.  I’m going away with mostly people that I don’t really know…and I’m going out of the…