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Beyond Nat Geo: Discovering the Tarahumara
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Escalators, doggy hitching posts, and doors that close really, really fast.
Lausanne, Switzerland. End of day 3. (I think) Before I left the US for this study abroad trip, everyone told ...
First Impressions: Article 2
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Food, Places, Prices, Culture
This is my blog about living in Southern Peru. Full of info, and photos. Enjoy. peaksandpitfallsinperu.blogspot.com
The Italian Romantic Ideal Invaded
You can’t help but hear them: they’re the ones laughing so loudly they bring the room to a hush and ...
Top 3 Weird Things About Being Home
As I'm typing this, snow is slowly drifting down onto Boston's streets. I arrived here late on New Year's Day ...
A little Florence advice
Someone asked for more advice about living in Florence so here it goes.... despite the rumor that Italians can be ...
RENEGADE BELGRADE & the Balkans in General
It's morning in Novi Beograd. I am lying in bed, debating whether or not I have to get up just ...
Multiculturalism at it's Best
Multiculturalism is a good thing, right? Luang Prabang is known for its mix of cultures: its Lao and French architecture, ...
Culture Shock:Chronic Disease of Expatriation and Personal Growth
"Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and ...
Czeching my reflection...
The three month mark has come and gone. Looking back, I realize that I've pretty much accomplished what I set ...
First Day Delhi Blues
The transition to India has been more difficult than I expected. Delhi is an overwhelming city, at least to someone ...
Bring Your Own Glue Stick: Preparing for the Foreigners Regional Registration Office
Bhogal Market, New Delhi I am shopping for a glue stick in Delhi's Bhogal Market and waiting as a clerk ...
New Teammates
Living in a town where we are the only foreigners besides our teammates makes our relationship to our teammates very ...
Returning is NOT the same.
We have lived and taught in our small rural town, experienced most of what we thought was possible and were ...
Litter
I have been positing a theory for awhile about littering and why it seems to me that people are ...
Put Down the Camera; Learning to Really Capture the Moment When We Travel
by Jill Robinson There is something about embarking on a new adventure, exploring new cultures, places, food and smells that ...
Photo Picks: Playing Around in Kenya, Floating Meditation in India, Street Food in China
FIRST PICK: PLAYING AROUND Photographer: Chris Minihane What it's about: Daniel, pictured here, is a Kenyan Maasai who lives near ...
Welcome to China...Now Learn Mandarin!
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The people of Guatemala
As I was saying previously about Guatemalans: Amazing. Amazing people. Beautiful people here - I am talking about he Mayans ...
Jamaica respite
Over the last several days I have been saving up lots of things to write about, and am only now ...
Thoughts from Guatemala
Over the last several days I have been saving up lots of things to write about, and am only now ...
Knowledge is Unremittingly Personal
There is power in a yet-to-be-fulfilled promise; a power in time. One of the astonishing strengths of love is that ...
Trams don’t stop at crosswalks, even if you’re in one… The only exception: Jaywalking nuns
After just a few weeks, I've found that there are quite a few not-so-subtle nuances apparent in Czech culture, one ...
Change is coming to Japan
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Japan photos; contrasts
Above a busy street in Kobe there is a very quite violin shop. BTW I hope I can learn the ...
How to know you've offended a Japanese person.
Why is it so easy to offend Japanese people by just being American? Actually most Japanese are very fond of ...
Hip-Shaking Required: Dance Programs Abroad
If my study abroad program had required me to dance for academic credit, I never would have graduated. My ...
Win a Vacuum Cleaner!
The Swiss love vacuum cleaners. Whenever there’s a competition, the prize always seems to be a vacuum cleaner. You have ...
Bafa Bafa: Teaching cross-cultural transitions since 1977
Three years ago I moved to Eastern Europe to teach English to high school students. Before I left, my mission organization hosted ...
Coming Home is the Hardest Part
When I used to think of Vietnam, I would think of teenagers with flowers in their hair and leather ...
Floggers, the new urban tribe.
Today The New York Times tapped into a fascinating little corner of local pop culture: The lives of urban floggers. ...
The Japanese Love Hotel
My bank balance hates me. That is to say, my 'ghetto wallets' as Erin so kindly puts my quite frankly ...
Gringa in Tokyo
I am a gringa in Tokyo. No, not gaijin, the Japanese word for foreigner, but a gringa. Gringo is a ...
