Merry Christmas Ma n Millie

Merry Christmas Ma n Millie!

So New Years, Christmas and my Birthday were fabulous, as I said. See my face on Christmas morning!? It was so great to be back in the states with all the creature comforts I´ve been accustomed to all my life:
warm showers, baths (in clean bathtubs), whatever type of food i want at whatever hour of the day, (ok, well i didn´t always have that, but i could always get that if i put forth enough effort). I just didn´t know how important that stuff was to my life experience. I´m ready to live that way again. One thing i can surely say that i´ve gain out here in rural CR is an understanding of why people want to get to the states so bad. Wouldn´t my Latin American Labor professor be proud!?

You know i think i do want to be a professor; at least at some point in my life. I can also see now that i REALLY appreciate the life of a student. You constantly have a clear academic goal, and you only have to take life in semester long time periods. Its lovely, ooor it could be a bad case of the grass is greener, but i´m ready to be a student again. I know itll take some time and i´ll have to save money in a job before hand, but i´m ready to get back in school and become like a cool professor like my AP stats prof, or Dr. Cowie, or Prof. Adams. yeah....

In other news, i managed to upload a picture in blogger in Spanish without a second thought or hesitation! Maybe i am qualified to teach computer basics in Spanish, we´ll see where that goes. I´m looking for a job, working with labor is great, working with immigrants, anything in the SouthEast. My vision, i think, for now, is to act, sing, dance, travel, and serve for equal opportunity, social justice and social change. Yeah that is what it is. So let that one marinate in your minds for a while, while i do the same... Write the vision, make it plain...

on last thing, i´ve been listening to a lot of gospel music lately. it helps me get thru the many hard moments...

Peace and Love, jlg

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy New Year folks. Welcome to my first post for 2007. 07 the year of completion, the year of Acomplishment and Achievement. I passed the New Year with my best friends in the World Lisa and K in Chicago. it was fabulous. Christmas and my Birthday were great too, in Atlanta with my family and friends.
The next trip home may be sometime around Easter, but either Spring or Summer. vamos a ver - we will see.

So I have Costa Rican friends! You can check out fotos of them on my facebook album. I also managed to get a few pictures uploaded from Carnaval Limon 2006, this was in mid-October, so check out my Flickr account!

Running out of internet time as usual, so i´ll leave it at that and bid you guys a farewell with promise of more blogs!

love, j