2016-07-24
Sitting here, back in my living room in Bethesda Maryland is a crazy thing now that I think about it. I just lit shabbat candles and am alone in my house. So many Friday nights I remember sitting silently in my room in Ecuador wondering what my friends and family were doing with their start to...
Read More2016-06-06
Epilogue: I didn’t really realize that I already had 4 blogs up, I don’t want to post too many cause I feel like only a handful of people other than my mom and aunts read my blogs (Shout out to Lisa Walter & Eileen! And other staff!??!). Leave me a message! Show some love! It...
Read More2015-09-23
Day 5: My host family still doesn’t know I have tattoos and that I accidentally broke a telephone pole in the back linking the house’s electricity (I managed to prop it against a small cement wall and another post to keep it upright) A strong wind gust will undoubtedly be the end of my wifi....
Read More2015-09-16
(All quotes are pretty damn exact! at least to the best of my knowledge. I made an effort not to embellished). To preface this post I would like to say that I initially planned to write this post about climbing Mt. Pichincha and ending up in the hospital. Then I was going to write...
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2015-09-03
Day three in Shrequador: This place, this city, this cultural meltingpot of volcanophobia and awkward bus rides is incredible to say the least. I wake up every morning at 5:30 to the house shaking from large vehicles speeding down the narrow street outside. “I could try and go back to sleep but I think that...
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2015-08-29
I looked down from the video titled “instructions for a bad day” and leaned over to the girl next to me. “I almost put my glasses on, thought I felt a tear”. She just looked at me unimpressed… As I looked around I saw a fellow, hunched over in his chair covering his face sobbing....
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