Holidays cost more than you think!

Stats from the UNWTO:

600 Billion is spent on travel and tourism annually

50 000 people die a day from poverty
1 Billion is enough to put 20 million children in school
4 Billion could save 500 000 mothers per year from dying in childbirth
1.4 Billion would buy water and sanitation for 14 countries
12 Billion would provide anti-retroviral drugs to 75% of the world's HIV-positive people
5.1 Billion in preventative and therapeutic interventions would save 6 million children per year

1.2 Billion live on less than a dollar a day...40 Billion could lift all of them out of poverty.

Why is a ton of the money in our world going towards useless things and not towards helping people!?!?!?!?!

Lets put this into perpective....Why is more of MY money not going towards helping people? If I am not the change I want to see...who will be? I dont have billions by I have something....

Happy.

Today the snow is here....:) and i am happy. I woke up, looked outside and this is what I saw. There is something about the first snowfall of the season....first it makes me thankful i am warm and cozy and have lots of good books to read, then it makes me excited about Christmas and seeing my family, and finally I begin to think of all the fun activities that I will do in the lovely white powder! snowboarding, snowshoeing, taboganning, skating...more snowboarding...ahhhh the winter is finally here :)

Time passes on...

Wow, time is flying by! I can't believe another two and a half weeks and i will be going home for christmas! I can't wait! Since we haven't been going out on any trips lately most of my days are spent in class, at the gym/pool, or....in my room. (my room happens to be really cool). Mostly i am in my room working on a ton of assignments or studying...yes STUDYING. Even though i am in adventure guiding, we DO study and write final exams (like today) and do presentations (like today) and write papers (like today). So how do i have time today to blog? well....i'm procrastinating and having some down time from the busy day of exam writing and presenting. Plus we presented on snowshoeing as a product in the adventure industry, and I LOVE to snowshoe so i thought i would share with you some pictures of me snowshoeing :) enjoy!wait! that's not me! but wow, snowshoeing has been cool for a long time!

Conquered!!!

Whahahahaha...my nemesis has been conquered!!!! YES!

(and to answer an earlier question, the boat is not mine and does not have a name, any suggestions for names will be considered :)