2018-10-03
Photo Credits: Kaitlyn (from left to right -Mamadou, Salomé, Alex, Fallou, Elaine, Ousmane) As an apprenticeship, Alex (an English fellow) and I started working on E-Jáng radio. E-Jáng radio is a fellow’s initiative that started last year. This radio show/program is a free platform for high-school and university English students around Thiés. In this show,...
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2018-10-03
Poco a poco, little by little, bit by bit. “Poco a poco” has been my favorite phrase recently. It is so simple in both English and Spanish, but I find that is the answer to most of the questions I’m asked right now: *How are you adjusting? How’s the language acquisition been? Do you feel...
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2018-10-02
This last week has defiantly been my most active week so far. The weather was perfect – not too hot, not too cold, so I got lots of biking in! It allowed me to explore the area with a new found sense of independence. Also, in one of my language classes, we learned a bunch...
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I am in love with the way the sun peeks out behind a tall daisy covered green mountain behind my house at 5:47 am every morning. I am in love with the sound of the dog’s paws running on the roof above my bedroom around 6 am as if they were about to begin a...
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2018-10-01
[image: IMG_3260-3.jpg] Today I did something pretty stupid. Back home in Singapore, I love nothing better than riding my bike. Going out without a helmet (I do not recommend) onto the streets blasting my music, knowing every path and alleyway. Through the nights and into the mornings, I would cycle my thoughts away and watch...
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2018-09-30
Whilst drawing out in the landscape, an art teacher once told me that “you must draw faster, because every time you look up, what you see will have changed.” Pencil in hand, and sheltering my sketchpad from the late winter drizzle, I realise that this concept transcends much further than the Tuscan hills. On the...
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I’ve officially been in Ecuador for a whole month and it’s been full of lots of crying, lots of laughter, lots of connections, and a lot of unknowns. Sunday, August 26th, everyone arrived at Stanford University in California as we begun preparation for our next year in country. The first week at Stanford was full...
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