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	<title>Volunteer Abroad Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thailand’s Beautiful Upcoming Festivals: Fireballs and Floating Lanterns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Coming up in October, our Teaching English and Teaching IT volunteers in Thailand will be able to see some of Thailand&#8217;s amazing festivals, including the celebration of the Naka Fire Balls and Loy KraThong Festival where hundreds of lanterns are released into the sky.  The “Bang Fai Phaya Nak,” Festival celebrates the amazing natural phenomenon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things to Do When You Volunteer in Phon Phisai, Thailand</title>
		<link>http://www.uvolunteer.org/volunteer-life/2010/08/31/thing-to-do-volunteer-phon-phisai-thailand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsea</dc:creator>
		
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Originally from Thailand and transplanted to Costa Rica, uVolunteer staff member, Meaw Chanphum, loves to tell everyone about her beloved home country.  Her hometown in Thailand is only 30 minutes from our Teaching English project in Phon Phisai and she spent a lot of time in Phon Phisai while growing up in Thailand.  Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteers Leave a Special Donation for their Environmental Conservation Project in Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.uvolunteer.org/volunteer-life/2010/08/26/volunteers-donation-environmental-conservation-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsea</dc:creator>
		
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Tarquin and Megan just left our environmental conservation project in Costa Rica and decided they wanted to leave something behind to help out the center.  They knew that it was low in resources and realized that one thing the center really needed was a new saw.
They spoke to our coordinators and donated money for Camilo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Reports from Her Media and Arts Project in Bolivia</title>
		<link>http://www.uvolunteer.org/volunteer-life/2010/08/23/sarah-reports-media-arts-project-bolivia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsea</dc:creator>
		
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Sarah Horton is volunteering in our Media and Arts Project in Bolivia.  She gets to spend the whole day surrounded by beautiful art and helps the local staff organize exhibitions and develop their website.
Read about her first two weeks in Santa Cruz, Bolivia:


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		<title>Coordinators Report: New Environmental Conservation Volunteers Arrive in Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.uvolunteer.org/volunteer-life/2010/08/20/coordinators-report-environmental-conservation-volunteers-arrive-costa-rica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Our local coordinator Camilo accompanied volunteers Tarquin and Megan on their first day of their environmental conservation project in Costa Rica.
Here is his report from their volunteer project:


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		<title>Volunteer Goodbyes from Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.uvolunteer.org/volunteer-life/2010/08/19/volunteer-goodbye-costa-rica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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The sad day always comes when volunteers have to leave, but our local staff in San Ramon, Costa Rica didn’t want to let them go without expressing our appreciation for their hard work.  Royce and I surprised two volunteers, Brett and Alexis, on their last day of community English classes to give them a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Trip Day 4: Crocodiles, Iguanas and Turtles in Tortuguero</title>
		<link>http://www.uvolunteer.org/volunteer-life/2010/08/18/volunteer-trip-day-4-crocodiles-iguanas-turtles-tortuguero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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At 5:45am my alarm went off.  We were going on a wildlife tour of the backwater canals in Tortuguero and if you want to see animals, you have to wake up early.  We met our tour guide, Robyn, at the dock and loaded into a low, narrow boat.  We took off into the wide river [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Trip Day 3: Deep into the Jungle of Costa Rica’s Carribean Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsea</dc:creator>
		
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We woke up in the lodge early, ready to pack into the van and explore the Caribbean side of Costa Rica.  By 8:30 we were back on the unpaved road out of the Lodge and on our way to the remote beaches and rainforests of Tortuguero.
I always find you can learn a lot about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Arrivals and First Day Project Reports</title>
		<link>http://www.uvolunteer.org/volunteer-life/2010/08/16/volunteer-arrivals-and-first-day-project-reports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Six new volunteers arrived in San Ramon, Costa Rica last weekend and one of the new teaching English volunteers, Jessica, filled the spots of Nikki and Moritz, who left us a few weeks ago, at a rural school in San Ramon.  The teacher there and all of the kids are extremely appreciative of volunteers, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Goodbyes from Costa Rica: Nikki and Moritz</title>
		<link>http://www.uvolunteer.org/volunteer-life/2010/08/12/volunteer-goodbyes-costa-rica-nikki-moritz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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New volunteers always arrive, but the past two weeks I’ve been saying a lot of goodbyes to volunteers that I&#8217;ve grown to love.  As hard as it is for volunteers to leave each other though, saying farewell to the children they have gotten to know and love through teaching is sometimes even harder.  Laura and [...]]]></description>
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