Songs Significant To Me In Senegal
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jMS6xs5TL33GjzVYC3fOK
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Archives: Fellow Updates
An Act Of Love
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
An act of kindness in a time where I was feeling really low was when my host father taught me how to make his attaya (tea). The day before, I had just lost something very important to me; something that I had really defined my year for me up to that point. And one of...
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To the Wathie Family, With Love, Maam Faatu Toubab
Mia Reyes
2019-05-21
On the morning of pick up day, I woke up early at 6:00 to finish packing my room, and as I finished I sat down on my bed, looking at the family picture that my dad had made us take the night before, and wrote this, glimpses into the mountains of lessons I learned from...
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Dena Muething
2019-05-20
I worked hard to compile my 7 months living in Ecuador into just a 7 minute video. I experienced and went through so much more and past the highlights and what is shown. And as a disclaimer, this video is representative of my experience in Ecuador in the small rural town I lived in the...
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Fundamentally Different, Fundamentally The Same
Maya Foster
2019-05-20
My mother has created the perfect response to an imperfect question; when asked if her daughter returned from her gap year more “__________” (insert mature, worldly, grounded, etc.) or simply just “different,” she avoids a direct answer. Instead, she opts for an anecdote. I will preface this with the fact that I have this information...
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Sweet Rainfall
Maddy Gibson
2019-05-20
There is something comfortable about rainfall. The steady drip of a leaky gutter, a downpour in the middle of the night. It is familiar; it is unchanging. Rain is a constant here in Oregon and it wasn’t uncommon where I lived in Ecuador. In Imbabura, the rain usually comes in the night, settling the dust...
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Luciana Ribeiro da Silva
2019-05-20
I wrote this piece in my journal on February 5th, when in Shillong, Northern India. Earlier this morning, a proverb about a teacup was told to us and something sparkled. There was a wise Zen master that received people from all over to teach all sorts of life lessons. One day, a scholar came seeking for...
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