2018-06-08
Sixty days, nineteen hours, fifty-five minutes and around thirty seconds have passed from the time I left Senegal to the time I started writing this blog. Since then I’ve been in Northern California, Southern Oregon, upstate New York-Syracuse to be specific, my home for the next four years- ,the big apple itself, and finally back...
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I have to be honest: it’s been difficult being back. I think almost everyday my thoughts wander back to my life abroad, in Ecuador, surrounded by people who I grew to love- my host family, my supervisor and apprenticeship, and all of my friends I made within the program. But if there’s one thing I...
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¿Alguna vez te has sentido culpable al sacar una foto? ¿O solo por el hecho de pensar en sacar una? ¿Alguna vez has tenido problemas para compartir una historia? Qué palabras usar, qué detalles incluir. ¿Cómo puedo compartir una experiencia con una "comunidad" sin caer en la superficialidad y en un prejuicio en el que...
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Did you ever feel guilty when taking a picture? Or just for the mere fact of thinking about taking one? Did you ever struggle with how to share a story? Which words to use, which details to include. How can I even share an experience with a “community” without falling into superficiality and a judgment...
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2018-06-08
Fun is over. We are back at our home countries, or whatever we like to call them now. Seeing my real fam was awesome, a lot of hugs smiles and questions. However I can't say that I was there with them because mentally I was still in Ecuador and it just seemed impossible to move on....
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Originally written on March 22nd So as you guys know, I’m working at the local school in my community co-teaching english with three other english teachers. On Mondays and Thursdays I work mornings from seven to around one, teaching the little kids, and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays I work afternoons helping out with the older...
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Putting words to particular moments can sometimes be limiting- language is important. And sometimes they’re better expressed through pictures. Captured all throughout Ecuador, including Quito, my host community Chaltura, Mindo (cloud forest), Cuenca, the Amazons, and the coast.
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