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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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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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Eat it up (if you can)

September 26, 2011

“I lived in Ghana for a semester; Paris will be a breeze.” This is indicative of the simultaneously arrogant and naive things I thought before I came to Paris. When I left for Ghana, I had few expectations other than that everything was going to be really ridiculously different. In truth, things were probably nicer [...]

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Things that are challenging: walking.

March 8, 2011

Sometimes it makes a lot of sense to go back and tell a not-so-recent story without provocation. I’m not just talking about how you’re telling a current story and then it makes you think of another one. There is a distinction between exploiting past stories for blog filler and stories that are somehow significant to [...]

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high school, nepotism, and Ghana

June 13, 2010

I am currently sitting in my mom’s art gallery, killing time because it’s a Sunday and people don’t come to the Jefferson City mall on Sunday. In fact, people, don’t really come to the Jefferson City mall at all, but that’s another matter. Anyway, my day consists of opening the gallery for my mother so [...]

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