Today I met this french guy who grew up in the Ivory Coast, works in the Middle East as a teacher, and drove down from Seattle with a girl from California who he met two years ago in India.
“The worst sleep ever!” he laughingly complained, as he eagerly sipped down his coffee and explained the excitement of sleeping in your car only to be woken up with Military guns pointed at your face.
Their ultimate goal was to make it down to Guatemala City, where they’re going to go to some small, isolated villages and set up a volunteer based Montessori-esque school for some kids who's only other option is harvesting coffee. This is either the second or third official one they’ll have started… ahh, I love it! All from a homeless looking guy who is excited to shower in the ocean, has no shoes in sight and yet two master degrees and is changing the lives of children in different countries all over the world.
The dream, it's yours - own it, you can live it!
“That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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