Breaking the budget

For the last few months I have been agonizing over a few different decisions for this summer. Basically, Justin and I both had some amazing opportunities to travel but the die-hard cheapskate side of me wasn't sure how it would fit into our budget... If I'm clipping coupons for 20 cents off of a can of beans how can I justify traveling across the world?! 


Well, I finally decided to live a little :) and later we both found out we got some amazing grants and scholarships. We feel super blessed-- first, to get to travel and second, to have a good part of it paid for.


Good news is the blog should get much more exciting! I'm always better at blogging when I'm abroad. So here are the details... 


1) I am going to Ecuador with the BYU undergraduate nursing students as a "mentor" of sorts. :) It is the same study abroad I went on as an undergraduate so I'm super excited. I just need to practice my español because I'm a little really rusty. I'll be supervising the students in the maternity hospital, Sotomayor (aka the "Baby Factory", which I wrote about here and here), and the NICU area of the pediatric hospital. 

2) Justin and I are going to Mozambique with a non-profit called Care for Life. Justin will be there for a month and I'll join him for the last two weeks. We are SO excited. We will be working with their health director teaching a new health and hygiene booklet they have made. I'll post more about them later, but they are an awesome organization.

We will be working in some villages near Beira (kinda in the middle of the coastline).

Here's a little video about Care for Life. We are so excited to work with them.