I just uploaded 30 pictures from my time at the Liberian Refugee Camp.

Clickey!A friend of mine at UCSC, who went to Ghana with my group, is taking a "children and war" class. In about two weeks, they are doing a week long awareness raising activity. They are going to be living in tents to simulate being in a refugee camp. Each day will be a ( Read more... )

Flist, I am alive! Africa has not beaten me down too badly. :) My flight back to California leaves next Monday, late at night. I get into LA around 3:30pm the next day. My dad is here! There is a conference on adaptive science and technology at a grad school nearby that he presented a paper for. We can't take an overnight trips due to my finals (I ( Read more... )

( 4 August 2007 )

Hi all! I made it safely to Ghana. :D I've been here since Thursday night. I'm gonna post two entries, one for July 27th and then one for today. I'm also going to try to post some pictures. I hope you enjoy them.

I haven't checked my flist since Wednesday... I may read it, may not. The internet café I'm in at the moment closes at 5pm.

I don't have The Book preordered at the Borders I'm going to tonight. Hopefully, my mom preordered a copy from Amazon. If I get a copy tonight, yea. If not, I will survive. I'm really overwhelmed with Ghana stuff at the moment, so getting The Book on time is the last thing on my mind. Even though there isn't that much to do, I feel like I have ( Read more... )

I finished re-reading Book 6 twoish nights ago. I don't remember be so affected by the ending the first time I read it. Hopefully, I will be at a Borders in Orange County this Friday for the book release! I am planning on dressing up as Ron. My Ron costume has been sitting idly since Lumos last summer, so I am looking forward to wearing it again ( Read more... )

Vegas was so much fun!! There aren't many pictures (I think there's some of the Hoover Dam and that's about it), but you've all probably see those sights anyways. :) I saw Spamalot at the Wynn. It was hilarious and made me very happy. I gambled a bit. We didn't really win... ever lol. But that's okay! Jeff taught me blackjack (which I sortof ( Read more... )

I'm done with finals!!!! Yea!!!! I think I should have studied for French a little more... I studied this morning lol. I was not in a french state of mind, language wise ( Read more... )

I got my ass kicked in soccer today. My roomie Annie coerced me into playing with her intermural team at the ARC. It was soooo hard!! I'm already sore and quite tired from it all. All I want to do is sleep!! Well, that and take a shower. But I like to take a shower when I have finished all my homework (or at least part of it... definitely not doing ( Read more... )

Today, I woke up at 2:40pm ( Read more... )