So it amazes me how much I can learn in a four month block and how much I can build myself up and think that I am indeed a much wiser woman than I used to be, and then how easily I can be brought down again. Maybe it's a self-esteem thing, but I think it's a God thing ( Read more... )

So we’ll see how much I can get down in the rest of my compy’s battery. I know I haven’t written in forever, but there’s gotten to be a routine about my life here. And it rarely involves sitting in front of my computer anymore, as well it shouldn’t. There’s a lot of life to be lived and culture to be seen, even if it involves lying by the pool ( Read more... )

True story. These words are all for you people who I miss so much and want to understand the intensity and surreality of my experience here ( Read more... )

It's so difficult to believe that it has only been about two days since I got up at 3:45 in the morning and went to Metro City Airport to say goodbye to my parents for four whole months. And of course it was different this time because I am not simply in Valpo by a really expensive route. I'm in Cholula, Mexico. Going to the University of the ( Read more... )