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Week 8 Reveals Fate, Convent, Volcano

By on December 3, 2016

Practicum ended (week 7) and we all ran for the hills. Not really.

What I actually did was enjoy a Saturday in Antigua and torteared on Sunday and then returned to life as I knew it on Monday. Two days of freedom (this doesn’t really happen here) was paramount to my…


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The Beginning: Week One In Guatemala

By on October 16, 2016

Genesis 1:1: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning (anew), I moved to Guatemala.
I remember when I started my big Euroventure and I also had no idea what I was doing, so I slept.
I remember when I moved to Alaska (for the summer) and…


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WATCHING, WRINKLED | Day One: Staging

By on September 30, 2016

WATCHING AND WRINKLED.
10:32pm That Night:
At the end of Day One in the Peace Corps AKA Staging, I ironed my teal shirt. 
In real life I don’t iron. But It’s my last night in America.
My roommate Kathy is a small woman in her 60s, not frail but petite, thin and almost quivery….

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Ketchikan, Alaska

All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.