Long Overdue
Sienna Walker
2012-05-24
Enjoy my first video! It touches on the big picture lessons that I took away from my gap year. Feedback appreciated! South of the Equator
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Enjoy my first video! It touches on the big picture lessons that I took away from my gap year. Feedback appreciated! South of the Equator
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For the last month or so I’ve started working exclusively in the microbiology lab here at AACRI, which I absolutely love. The lab is where we cultivate fungus and bacteria to make organic fertilizers (hence the name ‘organic’ coffee) and treatments for coffee and cacao plants. We don’t actually grow cacao here, but we sell our products...
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I was listening to music on the way to Downtown Seattle when a few seats away on the bus, I heard a rhythmic string of familiar words that someone once told me sounded like poured water over Spanish. In the usual way that I eavesdrop on the bus, I tilted my head to the four...
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Here is a video that I made for the 2012 Global Citizen Year Fellows of Senegal. I love you and miss you guys! Enjoy!
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For my last blog I wanted to write on returning to America, saying goodbye to my Global Citizen Year family and being back in the South. Arriving to America was just unbelievable that we were actually back, getting into a car where we actually had to wear seat belts and seeing everything as we were...
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When I had first arrived in Ibarra, I thought that it was going to be the longest 7 months of my life and when the time came for me to get ready to leave, all I could think was, “Where did those 7 months go?” Was it really time for me to leave? At that...
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Dear Journal, It’s my last night in my village of Ngouname, Palmarin, Senegal. I’m currently in the process of wrapping up my packing but I just cant get myself to finish putting the last five things I have in my room in my bag. It’s as if right when I’m done packing, it’s for sure...
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