Our names are Jenna Shallman and Renae Schmidt. We met during our first week at North Dakota State University in Fargo , ND South America has been our future destination since day uno. We finally graduated in May 2013, Jenna with a degree in Psychology and a Sociology minor, Renae with a degree in Biology and a Botany minor. We both also minored in Spanish and cannot wait to use and master the language!
We have passions towards helping others, building up communities, and healing the environment. We are very excited to share our time, energy, and enthusiasm to any honorable cause we come across on this amazing journey. Before arriving we made a pact that we would never say no to any opportunity put in front of us. We finally touched down in the southern hemisphere in October 2013. Since then, we have been learning and growing from every person we meet, every place we step foot in, and every experience we stumble upon. We quickly discovered that we are the most ungraceful travelers out there, but luckily we have an ability to laugh at our own expense and have been blessed with open hearts and minds, unprecedented but unwavering-on-the-verge-of-reckless courage, and the amazing support of friends and family. We have taken this step off the beaten path and thrown ourselves out here to take a shot at making our mark on the world.
The Walkabout-
"The term walkabout comes from the Australian Aboriginal. The idea is that a person can get so caught up in one's work, obligations and duties that the truly important parts of one's self become lost. From there it is a downward spiral as one gets farther and farther from the true self. A crisis situation usually develops that awakens the wayward to the absent true self. It is at this time that one must go on walkabout. All possessions are left behind and one starts walking. Metaphorically speaking, the journey goes on until you meet yourself. Once you find yourself, you sit down and have a long talk about what one has learned, felt and done in each other's absence. One talks until there is nothing left to say- the truly important things cannot be said. If one is lucky, after everything has been said and unsaid, one looks up and sees only one person instead of the previous two."
The Walkabout-
"The term walkabout comes from the Australian Aboriginal. The idea is that a person can get so caught up in one's work, obligations and duties that the truly important parts of one's self become lost. From there it is a downward spiral as one gets farther and farther from the true self. A crisis situation usually develops that awakens the wayward to the absent true self. It is at this time that one must go on walkabout. All possessions are left behind and one starts walking. Metaphorically speaking, the journey goes on until you meet yourself. Once you find yourself, you sit down and have a long talk about what one has learned, felt and done in each other's absence. One talks until there is nothing left to say- the truly important things cannot be said. If one is lucky, after everything has been said and unsaid, one looks up and sees only one person instead of the previous two."
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