2019-12-11
It’s been over a week since I’ve been sick in Senegal. And let me be the first to say, it sucks. It sucks a lot. I have bronchitis; I had my first fever since I was three; I have fever blisters so bad throughout my mouth that I cannot eat or drink; and I’m constantly...
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2019-12-11
Menu Starters to think about: Eating with your hand or a spoon is equally nice to eating with a fork and a knife! Eating foreign food for the first time is weird, but you get to the point of appreciating and missing it! Different cultures have their own creative ways of cooking and serving different foods!...
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2019-12-09
In few countries more people are lifted out of poverty, is the economy booming more than in India. Accordingly, one often reads that India is approaching the developed West at in increasing pace – and often forgets: the world’s largest democracy is already doing a lot of things better than the often highly acclaimed West....
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2019-12-08
When I was six years old, I loved to watch nature documentaries. They were funny educational films with speaking animals, and one of them was about the Galápagos islands. One scene from this movie that still remains very clearly in my mind is a group of marine iguanas taking in the sun on the volcanic...
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2019-12-08
Coming in Brazil, 3 months ago, I had a lot of goals: become a surfista*, dance samba, interact a lot with Afro-Brazilians and by now I should have been totally fluent in Portuguese. This is what actually happened. September:: I live on a mostly white island so I do not get to see a lot...
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Μέσω 7 September 2019 Dear Diary, today everyone is going to their host families. But my family was very close to the area that we were our first week here, so I went by car. Because I was waiting for everyone to leave I eat 2 times breakfast. I know its weird, but why not?...
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(¡español más abajo!) My name is Fatou Bintou Ndiaye, that is how I have been called for the past 4 months. That is the person that embraces this experience with all its ups and downs. That is the person I consider myself to be in this country. A few months ago I was asked...
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