2019-02-17
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was sitting in my Holocaust studies class, in room 1214 on the first floor of the freshman building. I remember every detail, even now a year later. We heard the first couple of rounds – warning shots. In the moment, we didn’t know what...
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2019-02-17
*Preface: Something a lot of people don’t know is that caterpillars actually liquify in the cocoon before becoming a butterfly. Like, as a kid I always pictured the little caterpillar just growin’ wings, takin’ a snooze, and then poppin’ out 20 days later looking glorious as ever. In reality, for 80% of that process that...
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– the process of healing is incredibly important, but don’t get so wrapped up in it that you lose part of yourself and forget to blossom. you need to be okay at some point – sometimes your problems aren’t something you can burn. sometimes it’s not that easy, and that’s okay – if you scratch...
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2019-02-16
> I started off this gap year with a blog post. The night before I left for Brazil, I rushed to put together a couple paragraphs on how excited I was for this year in order to meet the requirement of having at least one blog post written before arriving in-country. While it was written...
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2019-02-16
I have a lot of mixed feelings at this point in my gap year and I’ve been trying not to think about the small amount of time left here. I have less than 60 days left in Ecuador, about 50 days left with my host family in Bella Union , and less than 30 days...
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When you don’t have a washing machine in your house and you don’t want to wash all of your clothes by hand, you are forced to look for an alternative – in other words, you better find yourself some friends that do have a washing machine in their house. The day of the accident, Libbie...
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(A short, not-comprehensive-at-all, possibly biased list of things that might help you thrive in Ecuador) 1. If you have two bottles of 100% pure Parachute coconut oil for your hair in an environment that is 20℃ or less, and no access to a heat source, you will have to buy very expensive extra virgin olive...
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