BajaBlanca
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Clarissa graduating! Photos added 2/11
The very first student from the very first group of Beca Blanca students is graduating this month, on the 23rd. She majored in Marine Biology and
already has a job lined up in Punta Abreojos after she gets her titulo in a year's time.
We are having a graduation breakfast this morning and all the kids who are here in La Paz studying will be present.
Les is making his famous eggs with mushrooms, we have fruit and cinnamon rolls, we have date bread from San Ignacio, we have coffee OJ and our
landlady is going to make an "agua".
Photos of the get together later! What a moment this is!
[Edited on 2-12-2018 by BajaBlanca]
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advrider
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Wow! So cool, good job to everyone involved...
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Good on you Blanca,
Helping local real people in a real positive way.
Here is our local group up north.
http://www.bajascholarshipfoundation.org/
Its not where in life you travel, its with whom and how you travel. 
Es Todo Bueno
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Breakfast was delicious!
Menu was Les's special scrambled eggs with mushrooms, his fried potatoes on the side, a Spanish torta our landlady Maru made along with fruit agua,
tortillas, pan de datil from San Ignacio, cantaloupe, cinnamon rolls, coffee and OJ.
We all had such a good and relaxing time. Two kids were no shows. One is MIA and the other overslept. Ummmm it is carnival here in La Paz!
In between eating and chatting, Clarissa opened her gifts - since she is graduating in Marine Biology, I have her many ocean themed presents: a
turtle serving dish, a turtle soap dish, a watch which was too small for her wrist so I will get her another one, some tea towels and more.
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Excellent. Nice to see that good education go to work. Well done.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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Nice Blanca. Thank you for all you do for these kids, you've given them a great head start on life that they wouldn't have otherwise.
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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What, no famous Les's Polish Sausage. How can that be.
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Blanca, You are changing lives, think what their lives would be with the education you helped then get.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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BajaBlanca
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thanks all and yup, no Polish sausage !! heresy, for sure!
I can't wait until the kids can support 2 other students, that might start as soon as next year. Pass the love on, that is our goal.
Clarissa is so proud to be the first student. Her ceremony is on the 23rd. Many tears I shall shed as I tear up now, thinking about this moment.
and there is still her thesis to be finished - she has 2 years to do it, but is shooting for one year. The system here is so different than in the
states.
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BajaBlanca
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Clarissa graduated!!
It is hard to describe all the emotions I am going through right now .... the first student from the very first group of scholarship kids graduated
this evening.
I am happy because this is the first step of many she will take.
I am sad because I will most likely not be in touch like I have been for almost 5 years.
I am relieved that there are no more tuitions to be paid and only 4 more months of rent to be covered.
I am proud of her and her mom - their struggle to make this moment come to fruition was real.
Here we are!!!!!
And I know that many of you have been watching this project unfold over the last 5 years...so you might remember that Clarissa's twin got pregnant,
was removed from the program since that was the deal (no pregnancy until done with school) - she married, had the baby and another one. I asked her
Mom about the twin today and she told me she is taking a course in how to be a manicurist.....she was studying to become a lawyer before she got
pregnant.
I told her Mom to at least tell her to study English. It can't hurt and hopefully one day she manages to go back to college.
But this is a day for CELEBRATION! Isn't Clarissa simply gorgeous?
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Simply wonderful. Congratulations to you both!!
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Oh yes, she is  .
Congrats!
Saludos
Elona
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NextGen should always do better than their parents!
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