2019-09-22
It’s been exactly two weeks since I arrived at my homestay, and it’s crazy to me how quickly it’s begun to feel a little bit like home. I took a taxi home from Cuenca and was struck by how familiar the lights of Sayausí looked coming up the hill. The soft Spanish music and gentle...
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2019-09-22
A tangle of emotions swirl within me as the plane lifts off the runway of the Atlanta airport. I have flown many times before, but none felt quite like this. As the plane rises, the expansive city comes into full view. My stomach drops, simultaneously with the giddiness of finally commencing my journey and with...
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2019-09-22
"You took my sadness out of context" I want my writing to be better. I want it to move you, wrench you, change you. More honestly, I want it to move me, wrench me, change me. Something interesting is happening to me. My body is doing things it has never done before. My lymph nodes...
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(See attachments for picture) Day 3 with my host family. I am sitting on my balcony and just came back from Cuenca from my firs language class. On the bus back I was a little overwhelmed by emotions and tried to sort out my thoughts, so far I have come to several realizations: Language is...
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It is hard to pack everything that has happened in these last few weeks into one blog post. I mean it has been a pretty eventful time filled with walking my cows, making some incredible friends, and getting E. Coli. So where do I begin? I guess I can talk about the cows. During the...
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2019-09-19
The memory of the last mom hug that I got upon my departure from Gaza is still recurring in my mind since August 2017. After over two years of education at UWCRCN in Norway and other travels, I have arrived in Senegal to spend the 7 months ahead. After a week of an in-country orientation,...
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2019-09-19
A little over a week ago, I left the comfort of my fellows and entered the real Ecuadorian world. Bit by bit, our cohorts had been shrinking. Starting as a global cohort of 150, we said our goodbyes after a week at Stanford. After a few days at a monastery in Quito, the Ecuador cohort...
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