It's definitely getting to the "questioning why I'm here" part of the culture shock. The constant stress of the TEFL course paired with hearing another language around me all the time can definitely be overwhelming. Not to mention the flat I'm in now is sort of isolating and depressing. I'm half way done now and have the worst week ahead of me, ( Read more... )

Back at Smith. It's kinda weird. I feel pretty displaced and there are SO MANY MORE PEOPLE HERE than the last billion times I've visited during the summer. Ahhhh ( Read more... )

Yesterday I trekked up to Mamaroneck (a 3.5 hour journey via train) for internship stuff. Came back to NYC and had some beers with Cobby to catch up. We realized we were the only females in the entire bar and that was funny. I need to find bars either up by Grand Central or down by 30th street that aren't ridiculously expensive and touristy. While ( Read more... )

So a Revenge song just came on my iTunes and...I just miss Brighton so much ( Read more... )

Woke up at 6 am to head into NYC for a press conference on the budget cuts to the NY state school food program for my internship. Got to finally meet my supervisor and take pictures of all the speakers/press, help set things up, etc. There was even some assemblyman from Albany. My first press conference! It was pretty cool. Afterward, my supervisor ( Read more... )

Have been super busy with Hal here, but will update now as I'm avoiding studying more for my Psychobiology exam Thursday that I am rather ill-prepared for and Hal is up playing with Emilie because I'm being a boring studyface (or should be). Probably should have started studying more than 2 days before saying as it's 70% of my grade. I am going to ( Read more... )