Dispatches

It’s always hard to leave summer behind, but, in <a href=”http://www.freshtracks.ca/self_drive/sd_greatparks.shtml”>Vancouver</a> as in many North American cities, fall is lightened up with great fall festivals. Here are a few of my favourites:
The Vancouver Fringe Festival (September 6 - 16th) is a theatre festival with a bunch of great short, off-beat plays from around the world.

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The Fresh Tracks office gets to do a lot of fun stuff. We’ve gone go-karting, zip-trekking, to a baseball game, on the Whistler mountaineer, and, most recently, paintballing in North Vancouver.
 Paintballing is well-loved by angsty teenage boys around North America, but I’d never really seen it as something I, being older, wiser, and female, had […]

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Hello everyone! I’ll be leaving Fresh Tracks behind for 6 weeks as my boyfriend and I travel to Belize. Check back for photos and updates of my journey.
Lucas and I are leaving on our trip in just three days! It seems like we bought the tickets so long ago! We are so excited! I must […]

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I wanted to give up an update on my efforts to help out after the Peru Earthquake. 
This weekend I just got back from building houses in Chincha.  On the way down, we stopped in Cerro again and dropped off our second car load of food on the way. We then continued another 50 kilometres south to Chicha, which […]

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I’ve recently moved to Peru, and, after an August earthquake devastated a lot of the country, I’m looking to help any way I can.
 My boyfriend and I raised $800 before we left Vancouver, and, once in Lima, used the money to buy groceries. We loaded up the car with an assortment of non-perishable food and drove 150 km south to Cerro Azul.  You can […]

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