Team Tortugas

signs of spring ...a metaphor for our learning 

It is sooooo hard to eat no waste snacks unless you bring your own Studying for an exam after marking many assignments and tests - going digital next year 

Saving money of course! When I used to ride a motorcycle in my twenties, it was fantastic how I could fill the tank for a few bucks and ride for a week or more. When I bought my first car, it was a shock how much more it cost to fuel it up. I'd still love to ride a motorcycle but working in a trauma hospital kind of makes you think twice....

 Michelle posted recently about how Queen's University's food plan encourages waste because students are charged a set fee for the year, and can eat as much as they want, so they take huge servings at every meal, then throwing out whatever they don't finish because there is no financial cost.  Solutions? Change the plan at Queens to the one in...

Few years back I noticed one of the upstairs bathrooms is always very cold in the winter  (nothing like a cold toilet seat in the morning to wake you up!) I crawled into the attic to check and noticed the insulation wrapped around the bathroom fan vent pipe had fallen off. I reattached about half of the length of pipe, but ran out of foil tape...

I did not know about KIVA before joining this challenge. The 96% repayment rate record as well as ability to loan small amounts ($25) certainly encourages willingness to make micro loans through this organization.  Kiva scores 92% four star rating on Charity Navigator!  Having seen so many people hustling to make a living in Latin American...