I spent 2 months living and volunteering with the Solar Mamas of Barefoot College during the daytime and helping in the Barefoot College plant nursery in the afternoons. This was my first experience solo travelling, my first time outside of North America, and the only time I’ve worked somewhere without sharing a spoken/written language with any... Read More

From our taxi on the way to the hostel after landing in Bali, my two backpacking friends pointed out a row of big posters on the side of the road advertising the 2nd Stakeholder Consultation Meeting to plan the 10th World Water Forum happening three days later. “Hey, look! Isn’t water your thing?!” I found the free registration online, and was ... Read More

When I was in Cambodia, I met a French woman in a boat on an ecotour of a floating village who heard I was interested in water sustainability and simply HAD to connect me with her Nepali tour guide, Ram. I got breakfast with him in Kathmandu three days later, and he told me all about his home village in the Himalayas and how he has been able to... Read More

I have been doing a lot of self-reflection recently, partly due to applying to a few scholarships and fellowships. Man, those personal short essays will really make you pick your own mind apart. I’ve realized (and it has been pointed out to me by some very close friends) that I am quite hard on myself. I feel some self-resentment when I don’t ... Read More

In 2022, I went from being a 21-year-old who had pretty much never left Canada to living full-time in a rural village in India for 2 months, working every day with a team of grandmother solar engineers whose languages I didn’t know. The Solar Mamas of Barefoot College taught me how to express myself and create deep bonds of friendship without r... Read More

Thanks for visiting Adventure Engineering! The site is still under construction. As a challenge and to learn something new, I decided to build this website in Jekyll and GitHub pages, and I am still learning. Some parts of the user interface may be glitchy while I figure it out. Thanks for your patience! Take care. Read More