2020-02-10
Even though I’ve been in Senegal for over five months, I don’t want to leave. Even though my mom regularly texts me with the exact number of days until I’m home, I still don’t want to leave. And even though my dad just started making me homemade sauerkraut (trust me, it’s something to write home...
Read More2020-02-09
I’ve been meaning to write this blog update for… a while, now. I wasn’t sure what to say or how exactly I could represent my time here in Brazil as honestly as possible, and despite starting to write this post I still don’t really know. But we’re coming into these last two months in-country- the...
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2020-02-09
Where have you been? I’ve just been living to be honest! I’m in Senegal, Taiba Ndiaye to be exact. How much longer are you going to be out there? Well, as I am writing this it is February 2nd, so around 2 more months. How is it? That’s a loaded question. Some days I wake...
Read More2020-02-08
I left my home in Stonington, Connecticut in late August thinking that 7 months was a ridiculously long period of time. I thought I’d miss all my friends and my family, and I thought I’d want to come home before my time was up. Oh, how wrong I was. Of course, home is still home,...
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2020-02-07
I had heard about this time from many people …… “Lupi, you will have a lot of free time during this gap year. You must put it to good use.” But no one can really prepare you for what all these people meant. After the initial excitement of being in this new environment, I experienced...
Read More2020-02-06
Missed and Will Miss When February started it really hit me that I would be leaving my home in 2 short months. My plane ticket was bought and all of a sudden more and more people started to ask how long I have left here. This is when I realized just how much I am...
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