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shaun

¡Mellamo Shaun Michael Handlin Y QUE!

About Me

I've been a missioary in Bolivia since 2005, helping orphans of all sorts of back grounds, livivng where I work so I don't get a lot of down time but when you love you're work it's not a bad thing. If you would like to make a credit card donation through Paypal with a 1% charge click this link, otherwise contact me to make a tax deductible donation or for an address where checks can be mailed.

My Interests

I live away from all of my friends, but I have new friends here,they just speak another language. I try to keep in contact with my friends but its like a part time job, and I like to take lots of vacations.

I'd like to meet:

People that like us http://www.bcmission.com

Music:

The Notwist, Matt Pond PA, Damien Rice, The postal service, Sigur Ros, Denali, Unwed Sailor, Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, refused, The Mercury Program, Death Cab For Cutie, Beck, Mates of State, Polyphonic Spree, Karate, The Flaming Lips, Anathallo, Broken Social Scene, Nick Drake, The Appleseed Cast, Bjork, American Analog Set, Pedro The Lion, EastMountianSouth, Sufjon Stevens, Ottis Redding, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Rza, At The Drive In, Johnny Cash, The Streets, Yann Tiersan, Iron & Wine, Michael Jackson, and Bluegrass "finger pickn'good

Movies:

AMELIE, the 8th day, my life as a dog, City of God, Habla Con Ella,The dream life of angels, In America, L'Auberge espagnole, my left foot, Dirty Pritty Things, Goodbye Lennin, The Constant Gardener, Outfoxed, and anyhting else of the foreign flavor

Television:

McGyver, The Daily Show, Lost, Borat's Guide to America

Books:

Bible, Les Miserables, The Count of Mounte Cristo, the Perks of Being a Wallflower, Middlesex, No Logo, Johnny Got His Gun, That Was Then This is Now, A Peoples History of The United States of America, The Chronicles of a Death Foretold, McSweeney's, all the Saul Silverstein books, and every, Hemingway

Heroes:

If a person of greater weight and a person of lesser weight go on the same diet, i.e. eat the exact same food and the same amount of food and drink the same amount of liquids, yet both remain the exact same weight, what would this mean? Yes we know that the person of lesser weight is supposed to have a higher metabolism or be able to process foods better, but does that mean there getting less nutrition or nutrients out of there food? If it does I feel cheated, I wan´t to keep this metabolism as slow as possible, I wan´t as much nutrition for my buck as I can get give me the B12. Any thoughts on this would help, my hero is the person that can answer me this

My Blog

Live: A day in the life of Bolivia

So life in Bolivia is good. The kids have just gone back to school and 9 of them have gone back to live with families so it’s practically empty with only 33 kids. Though my beloved Eva has gone ...
Posted by shaun on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:47:00 PST

If the diaper fit´s change it to underwear

So I got back to Cochabamba (CBBA)(Co-Cha-Bomba) Bolivia on Monday after an amazing trip that only took 21hours from Chicago, though I was expecting it to take 3 days! The riots here have just about e...
Posted by shaun on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:17:00 PST

Bowl-live-ee-ah

So if you can forgive my lack of personal emails, group emails, letters, phone calls, English, and general happenings of all sorts it would be greatly appreciated. Let me start you off from the beggi...
Posted by shaun on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:20:00 PST

¡South America! The first 2 weeks

So I arrived in Lima and stayed with a family I met on couchsurfing.com, email me if you want an invite, you´ll never have to get a hotel again! It was crazy. The fed me gave me a bed and wouldn´t le...
Posted by shaun on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:54:00 PST

My Space Break aka Hello friends from the deep deep south

I´ve arrived here in Peru safely, after which I will make my way south to Bolivia to work in an orphanage there. I`ve been staying with a family here in Lima and through all my efforts I can´t pay ...
Posted by shaun on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:12:00 PST

From Salvador

1. Guate Working in Guatemala City was good times. First a wonderful group of health technicians, then a lovely school, good times, good dances, good weather. I was working with kids living on t...
Posted by shaun on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

mix tapes

I'm also an avid mix tape maker currently: OF 78 ARTIST-SONG ALBULM 1....
Posted by shaun on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

EU

Just got back from europe always the best, always spending money I shouldn't but to leave for a lifetime I must leave for the little times to keep my sanity, France Luexemborg, Belgium, The Netherland...
Posted by shaun on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST