2019-02-12
[português no final] I remember being told that to be on a gap year you had to get used to not doing much. To embrace the void in the hours that can fit in a single Tuesday afternoon. Well, before I could learn how to manage the stillness of being bored, I was struck by...
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2019-02-12
7AM I wakeup (unless the goats next door wake me up earlier…) and quickly have breakfast and get dressed for work, making sure not to forget a lunch for later in the day (I forget one more often than I’d like to admit…) and rush out the door by 7:30AM to walk to apprenticeship nearby....
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Christmas is really different here in Ecuador. There just isn’t the same hype and celebration that’s present back home in the United States. Businesses are actually open on Christmas here, whereas Waffle House is pretty much the only place you can find food out of the house on Christmas in Atlanta. Most families don’t have...
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2019-02-12
“The Sun said to the Man, ‘Spread more light than heat, that is what our world needs.’” Father George, Siloam This quote is what began the transformative experience that was Northeast India and Learning Seminar 2. A land with beauty that I had never seen before, mountains coated in green, boundless lakes and rivers, and...
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2019-02-11
I think there is an odd expectation that when you take a gap year it’s all fun and games. You’re traveling, living away from home, you don’t have work; life seems a lot more open. Well I am here to tell you that this year has been far from easy. There have been really great...
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My absence on this blog has been both an intentional one and an unintentional one. One that has both helped me and hurt me. And as my time here in Senegal is boiling down to a month and then some I have found myself reflective of the seconds that have slipped me, the months that...
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I used to say lightly I don’t want this trip to end because I genuinely felt it, I’m having fun and I’m learning and it’s all unknown out here so I can constantly explore and figure out new things about my environment and in turn about myself. Now though, I say it a lot heavily...
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