2019-12-04
Now that I’ve been sick in bed all week and have finished every episode of Black Mirror, I guess all I’ve got left to do is catch up on the blogging. Before I get into the main topic of this post, I’ll provide a brief update on what I’ve been up to over the past...
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2019-12-03
A field of corn with the capital city of the province, Ibarra, in the background. A friendly reminder that money doesn’t grow on corn stalks. A requirement for completion of the Global Citizen Year program is to raise $2,500 for the scholarship fund. This is a super important part of the program because without this...
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You know that feeling before the first day of school? Well on the Saturday morning that I was first dropped off with my host family, I was more nervous than I think I will ever be again. There were six fellows in the van with me that morning, as well as our team leader. We...
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3 months in! It’s difficult not to synchronize your heart with the local vibrations as you arrive at a new place and open yourself to embrace your surroundings. The Portuguese language has complicated, beautiful subtleties in itself: sometimes concise, sometimes expressive, sometimes witty and sometimes melancholic (or, more accurately, filled with ~saudade). I first fell...
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They repeat. Every hour, every day, every week. Sounds. Sounds which first took up so much of my headspace that I collapsed by the time the clock struck three, but which have now become the white noise in my head. It’s dawn and the parrots and squirrels are celebrating when I wake up at 6:10,...
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I wasn’t gonna do these blog posts because I think they’re nonsense and, also kinda repetitive. I’m doing this because I was annoyed by the harassment I received for not doing one when everyone else did. I really don’t have anything to talk about. Duh coming to Senegal has been a dramatic change in my...
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2019-11-28
I’m going to start of this blog with a little flash back to my life exactly a year ago from now. The peak of the IB term 3 – commonly known as the hardest of all, where students would sleep an average of 4 hours a night and be working the rest of their days...
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