2020-01-17
I always wanted to have a little brother and I think my wish came true. I remember coming to my host family the first time and he was so frightened of me and I really didn’t know what to do because I never really had a little brother. But as days and months go on...
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2020-01-17
Successful mothers are not the ones that never struggled. they’re the ones that never give up, despite the struggles. – Sharon Jaynes
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2020-01-15
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the concept of “adventuring”. If I’m being honest, this has been something I’ve borderline obsessed over since before I even arrived here in Senegal. So much so, in fact, that for a Global Citizen Year talent show, I wrote AND performed a poem I entitled “To Be An Adventurer”. The...
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In my high school language was not prioritized. People could take a simple three years of either Spanish or French and then they’d fulfill that requirement to graduate. I took four and a half years of French, but alas I came out with having no ability to converse with anyone in French. Part of that...
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When I was in Hebrew school, my friends taught me a song about how you could always find Jews wherever you were. I have since forgotten how it goes, but the positive notion of identifying as a diaspora Jew stuck with me. As I traveled to the JCC in Krakow, Poland and to Israel where...
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11/1/2020 “E aí?!” The howl came from a man 12 feet above me, delicately balanced on the Black Pearl’s center mast. One hand clutching the climbing net, the other a microphone, Captain Jack Sparrow let out his most ferocious cry yet. “QUEM GOSTA DE BARULHO!?!!?” The ship’s deck doubled as a dance floor as more...
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2020-01-14
Hello all. I've got some big blog posts in the works recapping the holidays with my host family and my independent travel time on the coast and in the Amazon – and all the learning that came with it – but the next few weeks are crazy busy, and I might not get to those for...
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