2019-09-04
(Sorry it's late, the words had to come to me first) The Year of Light Everyone has been told at a moment in their life to “chase the stars”. However, that is complete nonsense. Now you are probably sitting at your computer, reading the screen, and thinking, “What is this girl talking about?” Let...
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Home. A word that conveys a thousand different emotions, a thousand different reactions, with a variety of different meanings. The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘Home’ as: (noun) the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household By that definition home for me currently is nowhere. Currently, I do...
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Well, it’s off to Brazil! I thought the day would never come. You know how on the first day of school, you go over the course syllabus and you’re thinking, “There’s no way we’re ever gonna do all of that.” And you’re praying going over the syllabus will take months. And then all of a...
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I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the last two weeks mulling over my fears and apprehensions for the upcoming year abroad, considerably more than I had in the months leading up to pre-departure training when the year seemed like a far more abstract concept. I’ve catalogued all but one into the realm of...
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I remember waking up on Christmas morning when I was little and being so excited that I felt like I could run around and jump up and down for hours. I am now sitting on the plane from Miami to São Paulo and that feeling I have is times 10. I’m so excited, I feel...
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Sitting on the Willamette waterfront one last time, wasting time with close friends soon to go off on their own adventures to colleges and around universities around the US, soaking up the comforts of home in Portland, Oregon before I embarked on a journey far bigger than myself. This was one of the most exciting...
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US-Americans are friendly, happy, interested – all the time. That may be okay at first sight, being traits that indicate the positive state of a person, even of a whole society. At first I was delighted to see the openness and friendliness with which people interacted. But as the days passed, all the standing ovations,...
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