2011-12-27
It is 10 AM and you are hungry, so you decide that you would like to take a break from your semi-mediocre job at managing the karaoke equipment at the bar in this sleepy little town to walk over to Comidas Típicas. At this small restaurant, you see the maito and Kichwa families…and then you see...
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Christmas in Zuleta? Didn’t she change towns? Why is she in Zuleta for Christmas? Yes I did move, but my sisters and cousins were invited up to Zuleta on Christmas Day. As we drove through, and out of, Ibarra I was snapping pictures already. Half-way up to Zuleta. This is a wide part of the...
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2011-12-23
Monday, October 17 So, I’m sick again- gotta love it. When I’m sick I have a lot of time to think. I’ve been in bed since ten o’clock this morning; my sister suggested I try to sleep it off. It’s one o’clock now. I slept for about two hours but just couldn’t sum up enough...
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2011-12-23
In my family, we have a tradition of making and eating foods from different countries every Thanksgiving. Last year, we did Mediterranean and the year before that, Ethiopian. Although our tradition is to not follow tradition, Thanksgiving is always an important holiday during which we take time to appreciate all that we have. This past...
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2011-12-22
I was running, chasing the elusive breeze. The greenery was thick on either side of the thin, winding road, and sharp rocks beneath my feet on the dirt path were painful through the thin soles of my shoes. A strange sight, the foreign girl running through the jungle at 4 in the morning, before the...
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2011-12-21
I wrote this blog entry about three weeks into my stay in Senegal, while I was still in training, living in Dakar. It was lost in the bowels of my computer, but it is now found and posted, three months late, for your pondering: Nutella. It’s a personal vice. Not just any Nutella – the...
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2011-12-21
Tucked away in the north of Dakar surrounded by green lawns and palms trees, the Meridien President Hotel is glaringly different from the swelling, sandy neighborhoods and bustling, littered streets through which our taxi weaves. Within the five-star conference center’s halls, the environment is abuzz with the conversations and presentations by dignitaries, professors, and representatives...
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