Travel

Travel is a significant part of my life. Right now, I am living in Paris for graduate school. In addition to Paris-centric posts, I write about my travels around Europe, as well as stories from past adventures (family trips, study abroad in Ghana, etc.)

I am working on a way to organize this section more neatly by destination, but for now, here is the full lit of posts categorized as “travel.”

Cold showers, complaints, and a bucket

May 4, 2012

Do you know what is quite possibly the most miserable thing out of all of the things? Cold showers. They are a special kind of torture. My advice for cold-shower-taking is to begin frantic humming before you actually direct the water onto your body. That way, you are already warmed up for the squeal-like noise [...]

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20sb Vlog Day: Tour de Mardi

May 1, 2012

Given the fact that I have given 20sb its own frequently used tag, coupled with my recent obsession with vlogging, it was kind of inevitable that I’d participate in this year’s vlog day, isn’t it? The theme is “Give us a tour,” and I just couldn’t give another “tour” of my shoebox apartment. I don’t [...]

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The Expat Chronicles, Saint Malo, and Accomplishment Math

April 10, 2012

My brother came to town for nearly a week to help me celebrate my birthday. Over the weekend we went to Saint Malo. I have amassed a ton of things that I want to eventually put together videos for, which means that I’ll probably throw up a random video of my brother’s visit in September, [...]

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Stories From Ghana: Kakum (video)

April 7, 2012

I am finally taking the time to go through all the random, weird videos I took on our trip to Ghana. I have considerably more video from Kakum National Park, just north of Cape Coast, than any other place we visited, so it merited its own full video. There will be more of these later, [...]

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The Expat Chronicles: Change, Family, and other Adult-like things

April 4, 2012

HI. It’s now Wednesday and I uploaded this on Monday. If it feels like I am essentially spamming my own blog with videos, I should add that I am also doing VEDA, which means that this could be so much worse. But since this is part of a collaborative project, I feel a certain obligation [...]

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The Expat Chronicles: Vagueness, Feelings, and Trashy Sequined Katniss

March 27, 2012

I swear that I will resume posting real things with actual writing in a day or two. I have this thing that randomly posts old entries to my Twitter every few days and about a week ago it selected my first vlog entry to this blog. I was using my netbook’s webcam that has this [...]

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I still live in the internet. And places are awesome.

March 20, 2012

Remember when I said that I wasn’t going to post all of these videos here? I meant it when I said it, really…

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I live in the internet.

March 16, 2012

Lately this blog has been venturing into SRSBSNS territory. We are now in the second half of the semester and the real work on the research papers gets started and the questions about WHAT COMES NEXT will also start tugging at our heels and my life will spiral into a mess of #gradschoolproblems. All of [...]

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Returning to Ghana

March 13, 2012

“It was the hardest thing that I have ever done, but also the best.” This is the mantra that I pilfered from the classmate whose host family lived in the same neighborhood as mine. The thirty minute walk to school each day functioned as my morning therapy session; it was a way to keep the [...]

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Origins

February 13, 2012

I wrote this last fall and for reasons I can’t identify, I never posted it. Since I will be returning to Ghana for spring break in a few short weeks, it seems especially appropriate now, even if it is a bit different from the vast majority of posts on this blog. – “Morning is the [...]

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