2019-03-26
My Hindi Journey One of my goals when I set out for India was to learn a language. I believed that language and culture are linked at their core, and that it is often difficult to understand one without the other. So, I wanted to make learning Hindi a central part of my experience here....
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2019-03-26
March 26th 2019 Only a week. As I sit in this roof, I think: this is my last full moon here. There’s been times when I looked at moon from this same spot and told myself there are only x days left, you can do it. Today I cry. Today I don’t want to go....
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2019-03-25
A thing that Hong Kong really needs to learn from Ecuador and South America is their 4 day long carnival. My first carnival started one day before it should have started when we got into an intense but fun fight at the office of where I worked. Paint, ink, flour, eggs, foam and water were...
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2019-03-25
Intro Teaching is hard, and the first few weeks I wasn’t sure how I felt about my job. When I entered the elementary school classroom, the teacher handed me the text book and asked me to teach, since she knows basically no English. My first week on the job, this teacher had an appointment and...
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2019-03-25
It’s crazy how much can change in a year. I began my senior year of high school as your typical overscheduled, overstressed, and overworked student. I was president of the National Honor Society and Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper. I played the flute in my school’s band and soccer for my travel team. I was taking...
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[image: Image result for bahubali] अमरेंद्र बाहुबली यानि के मैं, माहेश्मती की असंख्य प्रजा, धन, मान और प्राण की रक्षा करूंगा। और इसके लिए अगर अपने प्राणों की आहूति भी देनी पड़े तो पीछे नहीं हटूंगा। राजमाता शिवगामी को साक्षी मानकर मैं यह शपथ लेता हूं। एक राजा का धर्म सिर्फ शत्रु को मारना ही...
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2019-03-24
During the last three months, the NGO I work with launched a new project in southern Brazil: raising awareness on the use of plastic and its effects in the ocean ecosystems. Having been an environmental activist for some time now, I couldn’t be happier to be part of this project, which in the end had...
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