Hola from L’Arche Mexico (known here as El Arca)!! My name is Bailey Wheeler, and I am a first-year student participating in the ABST 2023 experience. On Thursday’s bright and sunny morning, we started off with a breakfast of cereal and bananas. (Fun fact: in Mexico, the milk comes in a box and isn’t sold […]
Hola, my name is Maddie Duschek!! I am a leader on the L’Arche Mexico trip and this is my third ABST I have been on (I just keep coming back for more)! I have truly found so much love, kindness, and growth during this trip so far! Today, we had the opportunity to finish up […]
We started the morning by getting to Pio Decimo at 9:00. Some of the crew made their last trip to Dutch Bros to fuel up for the day with smoothies and coffee. We did many small tasks today, like cleaning windows, painting bookshelves, pulling weeds, touching up the paint on the mural, and more. Today […]
BY GRAHAM RUSCO: Day 5 presented the challenge of self reflection as we embarked on our first ever Navajo sweat lodge experience. The Navajo people utilize the sweat lodge as a method to cleanse the body of toxins. Specifically designed to mimic the environment of the womb, the sweat lodge poses total darkness once inside. […]
We started our day with a quick breakfast at casa blanca and headed to downtown Merida. We split into groups and everyone shopped for around an hour. Many people got frappes, cookbooks and even vanilla! We then made our way back to casa blanca to pick up David and a couple of items we left […]
Today we woke up and went off to breakfast before we heading off to our last construction sites for the week. We were split between the two construction sites that we were at the first day of construction work! Our group was tying wires, pouring cement, and moving rocks/gravel. We did not spend too much […]
After a very good night’s sleep back at Casa Blanca, we started our day off with two simple maintenance projects for the mission: painting both a fence, and the protector at Casa. While painting, a few of us learned a really good lesson regarding sunscreen application! During our second project, we split into groups, one […]
We started the day early at 4:30AM with a hike up the mountain to watch the sunrise with an elevation change of 1,000′. It was about a mile and a half up through the forest to the look point. We saw coffee beans growing in the wild all throughout our hike which was something we […]
We woke up bright and early this morning, just like any other, only thistime we woke up to snow! I suppose we cannot get away from the cold weather nomatter how far we travel, but it still turned out to be a beautiful day! Aftergoing to Pio Decimo for a short time to help move […]
We started the day eating breakfast in the Airbnb as usual. We still had a variety of foods like oatmeal, hard-boiled eggs, and pizza. We left for the Pio Decimo Center around 8 am, where we met John for our next adventure. Starting our service for the day, the group was divided into two groups […]
