Hello dear Family and Friends!
I hope you are all doing well. My life has been a fun, crazy, amazing whirlwind of late, with TONS of work, WAY more students than I expected, LOTS of events and daily wishes to clone myself. And yet, I am happy, feeling on it, powerful, beautiful and in my groove -- I LOVE my life. March is always crazy so things will calm down soon enough (I hope).
Exciting news: My parents are coming to visit me! I had an amazing time spending a month with them and many of you in Portland, Oregon this past February which was a lovely breath of fresh air and allowed me to return to my roots, rediscover myself and launch the new and amazing Kaia 2.0 (new haircut included)! But now I am even happier to say that Mom and Dad will visit me in Santiago, Chile from August 5th to August 18th! They will arrive the day after my 26th birthday -- the best gift ever! I can't wait to show them my life, introduce them to my friends, coworkers, students, and neighbors and share with them the life I love so much here and that I have created myself.
The other exciting news I have and extra-special request to make is this: Can you please watch the video on this website? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751796767/girlwithabook-chapter-1-south-and-central-asia
Watching it, you will meet one of my best friends from college, Jenny Ciochon, who is an amazing photo journalist currently located in Tunisia. She is joining forces with two other talented young women to travel to South and Central Asia in order to document the boundaries to education that exist for girls in the countries of Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, India and Pakistan. They hope to show us the day in the life of a girl in each place they visit and to also shine light on the individuals and organizations working to allow girls to educate themselves and improve their lives and that of those around them.
In order to do this, they have started a campaign on Kickstarter. As some of you may know, Kickstarter is a website that allows you to get backers for projects. The only catch is that the project is not funded if they don't manage to get enough financial backers. As of today, Wednesday March 25h they have only 6 more days to raise the last US$9,724 needed to fund their project! I don't usually make requests like this, but I really do believe in their work and therefore would like to ask you all to either donate or spread the word to those that can so that their project can get funded!
A few more notes about my friend and her team: This trio of outstanding women were the forces behind the #GirlWithaBook movement that gathered thousands of images of famous and non-famous women posing with books around the world in support of the horrendous attack on the Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousefzai. There campaign was so successful that they actually were able to publish and give the book to Malala in person at the United Nations! With this kind of power and dedication between the three of them, I am really really hoping you can help them out!
You can find more details about their project and how to donate here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751796767/girlwithabook-chapter-1-south-and-central-asia
I promise to write again soon with more details of my new life but for now it's bedtime! Today I had a successful but after-hours event with 50 or so international and Chilean students (a potluck!) and this weekend I will be taking a group of 19 Chilean and US students to the Colchagua wine valley as part of a retreat for their program. :) Oh, and last Wednesday I spoke to a little over 400 Chilean students (which was televised to two other rooms/auditoriums as not all could fit in the room). SO yeah, big stuff, big strides, big smile. :D
Biig hugs and thanks again for your help! Love you all.
Love, Kaia
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