I have started a new blog.

It is here: sarahfielding.blogspot.com

yay!

Last night I was sitting in the campus center talking with my friend Joelle when Joelle brought up a friend of hers who had visited within the first few weeks of freshman year and a mystery he had created for her last semester. Her friend had asked how Joelle's friend Hays was doing. Joelle struggled with all of her might to remember who Hays could ( Read more... )

It turns out that while I was gone Sarahs appeared all over the Marlboro campus. I start Tuesday mornings with a class of three Sarahs, I move onto another class where there are two of us, then when I head over to my on-campus job ALL of the student employees are named Sarah. I remember the good ol' days when Marlboro was filled with Kates, Katies ( Read more... )

Back on campus and who knows what this semester will hold.

I certainly am a different person than the last time I stepped foot here.

I have returned to the United States ( Read more... )

I just returned yesterday from a 9 day East Africa journey. I have so many stories to tell, but I'll try and hit the highlights here ( Read more... )

Lately, I 've been sitting around thinking about about change. A lot of the things I see in Tanzania as issues that people grapple with have to do with change---a forced, unnatural, better hurry up form of change. In all of my classes we talk so much about how colonialism changed everything, how it forced a new culture on Africa and tried to kill ( Read more... )

esterday when I went to my African Literature lecture and the lector said that the new topic was African Women Writers, I was pretty excited. I know little to nothing about African women writers and was pretty excited to find out why they were a seperate topic, etc. What I did not expect was that the entire lecture would actually be about the ( Read more... )

The water is out again. I'm upset because I really, really, really wanted to shower this morning, but it is not going to happen. It's funny to think how I've transistioned from wanting a hot shower to simply wanting a shower. The sad thing about when the water goes out is that you'll never know when it will return ( Read more... )

This weekend I took off for Zanzibar (about 1-2 hours via ferry) for Eid and paradise. Word about this trip quickly spread among the foreign student population and basically everyone decided to go. I think poor Eid got hyped beyond its means. With the exception of everyone flooding in and out of the mosques, I am sad to report that there was no ( Read more... )