2017-08-31
Hello! I wanted to do a quick explanation before I started the actual blog post. I’m currently at Stanford, where I will be for the next two days until I fly to Dakar. I wrote most of this on the plane from Seattle to San Francisco, but because I take forever to articulate my words,...
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I didn't expect to be writing another blog so soon, but today I was really moved by our morning seminar. We were visited by a speaker, Lee Mun Wah, who taught us about diversity by literally forcing us to interact and make a connection with someone else in the room that we hadn't met yet. ...
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2017-08-30
Two years ago today, I joined one of the coolest groups of people I’ve met in my life in the middle of the forest on Vancouver island. It was my first day at Pearson College. Freaking overwhelming to be honest. Found this with the caption "Living my realistic dream life". Not quite exaggerating though… A...
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This week is nothing like I expected. I told one of my mentors before I arrived at Global Citizen Year’s Program Launch that I was least excited about this first week. I hate orientations: the hyperactivity, anxious kindness, the leech of fresh and desperate “friendships”. Disgusting, right? Yeah, I’m not with it. I wanted to...
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I somehow never fit in with those girls with, or without melanin. Just because this rhymes does that mean I’m not intelligent? Plump lips and big chest Somehow on other girls it looks best, But that’s just me. I’ve never liked kool aid, I don’t like it...
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Well, here I am. Yesterday I left my first and only home, a little house in the quiet comfort of Carrboro, North Carolina, at 4:45 AM to start a journey that will indubitably change me forever. It's safe to say I'm still in shock. I arrived in California for the first time at 8:34 AM....
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The last time I flew into SFO I held the hand of a strange woman during takeoff; I feared flying alone. Now, less than two years later, I’m on a flight to SFO again and the two seats beside me are empty. My fear today is different. My fear is not of a rough flight...
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