I have a lovely new degree "Master in Environmental Studies: Community Development, Marginalization and Heat Response"

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I need to be at convocation by 830. I wanted to be asleep ages ago. I don't know if I am too excited or if my body just doesn't know what it means to sleep before the single digits but its just not happening.

From my upcoming book (maybe this week even ( Read more... )

Have you heard about Kiva? Kiva (www.kiva.org), a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur across the globe ( Read more... )

Taken Hi all ( Read more... )

I have found out that my biological grandmother (and possible grandfather) passed away but that I may have 3 new aunts and an uncle. Half anyways.

I found a picture of one of them. I think she looks a bit like my mom. I just emailed her.

Anxious and excited now..

Tanya

Have been sick since I got back...well actually since about wed before I left new orleans so 10 days or so now. Went to the clinic thurs and for an xray today; possibility of pneumonia. I think its a reaction to insulation fibres and black mold ( Read more... )

Not sure how much I will manage to update here but we are keeping a blog for our trip which I will be updating soon. It's at NOLA Trip blog A few tidbits from our swamp tour guide ( Read more... )

24 of us arrived and accounted for. Border problems including a guard who thought by volunteering we were taking jobs from Americans, and another who wanted to know why a student had birth control pills if she was there to volunteer!

Tanya

I handed in my MRP (Major Research Project) for my Masters degree today. It included a couple hundred pages of work. I am exhausted but excited ( Read more... )