the nature of the beast the whereabouts of a peace corps volunteer in the west region of Cameroon.

the nature of the beast
thoughts
sounds of cameroon
sounds of cameroon

This past week a carpenter came to the house with the owner who lives in Yaoundé to put shutters and glass in the windows. This is a great thing and I’m no longer freezing to the bone at night, but there was something to sleeping in the “open air”. Just before the sun would completely […]

this ain’t summer camp

3/2/12 I’ve never been one to miss people when I travel or move cities. Even when I was little and went to summer camp and all the homesick kids would cry at night with the counselors assuring them that everything would be OK and they would see their parents in just a couple weeks. My […]

joyeux noel
joyeux noel

  This may possibly be my busiest year to date. If I had succeeded into training myself to use a planner like I tried in middle school, I may have filled in every little box and used up all the stickers on the back page for appointments and birthdays, vacations and minor life changes. If they […]

madam keemberlee

7/12/11 Teaching is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. My first day of class was a disaster, but it probably could have gone worse. I’m not sure what I was expecting. but it was something along the lines of all the students being just like me, excited to learn about the possibilities that computers can […]

i’ll miss the big city, but I’m ready for my village
i'll miss the big city, but I'm ready for my village

I have less than a week before I leave for Africa. On my bed I have stacks of clothes organized and ready for boxing, and my computer is playing BBC radio where Obama is giving a speech to both houses of Parliament speaking hopefully about the future. I thought I’d give it a listen before […]

a fresh new year
a fresh new year

aside from this not so positive update, i’m excited for this new year. even though everything’s been thrown off from plan a little, I love not having so much stuff. I have just the basics. all the clothes, belongings and memories i love in a trunk. surrounded by my family that I love dearly and options to go anywhere with enough money to take me. not many people get such a fresh start.

the nature of the beast
the nature of the beast

the past few weeks seemed like they were out of a movie. i was overwhelmed with lasts—taking in as much as i possibly could. i was amelie with her hand in the barrel of dried beans at the market. i spent my nights sharing time with all of my favorite people. eating at all of […]

moving and shakin

I haven’t had too much to write lately. not because of a lack of thoughts— more like too many. everything has been taken off the walls and the rest organized to sell off. the past few nights before falling asleep the last thing i see are these blank unfamiliar walls, which spins me into a […]

on my death bed of sorts

it’s strange to think about how i want to say goodbye to things in a month. whats the proper etiquette for things like this? i have a month to try and hang out with everyone i love in lawrence, to see everything i haven’t gotten around to seeing the past 4.5 years i’ve been here. […]

i am my mother’s daughter
i am my mother's daughter

i’m being my mom for halloween. i just received a package with her old glasses in it. i asked her to mail them to me and i’m so glad she still had them. i always remember running into her room after nightmares or because i had an “accident” and she would reach over and put […]

long overdue

i’m not sure where along this road i started getting so lucky with friends. upon going to high school i had to split from almost every friend i had because of zoning. at this new school i remember being told about how freshman were considered “wall huggers” which i thought was silly until the first […]

counting down again

three more days until my roommates leave for Siena, Italy. I am jealous beyond measure. mostly because I want to traipse around barcelona and paris and florence with them and sketch things in charcoal and dance in boites de nuit and barcelona music festivals with my girls. lawrence is going to be wonderful, though. I’m […]

dfw

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default […]

creeks

I just finished watching my favorite Dawson’s Creek episode. The one where Pacey and Joey get locked into the big Kmart store, and have to use the Pj’s and toothbrushes from the shelves, get to watch movies on the plethora of tv’s agains the wall and, at the end of the night, share a sleeping […]

good morning

This morning was one of the good ones. I had to wake up early to drop Lindsey off at work, but I like saving her. I went back home and slept more, burying under my comforter to block the bright overcast skies that were somehow filling my room with bright. I woke up finally after […]

adequacy

Lately I’ve felt weird. I think it is probably just symptoms of Senioritis, but I feel like I’ve been tested this semester with adequacy issues. First off, this semester I have my internship at a design firm in Kansas City. I know I’ve been doing this design jig for 4 years almost, but every week […]

doppelgangers

Some week ago on facebook it was doppelganger week. My roommate, Ferrell, doesn’t think she looks like anyone, but I think I may have just stumbled upon her look-alike. ..Jealous. Especially since my closest look-alikes are dakota fanning, her sister elle, darma, julie andrews, or cindy lou hoo. None of whom could pull off a […]

film review

Top foreign films I’ve recently watched: La Vie en Rose french True story of Edith Piaf! A wonderful french singer with a life and a voice that gives you goosebumps. It was a great movie, but I couldn’t help but get frustrated with the different circumstances she was faced with. But how can you argue […]

mal organisée

I think I’m scared of writing because it makes me organize the thoughts in my head. Thus the long hiatus. It’s not that things aren’t happening in my life. Quite the contrary—the world is turning, the snow is melting, finally. I’ve started my internship at Willoughby, which has really changed my views on working for […]

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catching up with lindsey

you are not immune ..

pelo de gato

almost INDUBITABLY every time i go somewhere for the first time on the first day it is guaranteed to RAIN.. I think I posted about this a long time ago when I first started my blog. The first week I lived in Nashville it greeted me with ceaseless showers; then Germany, then Ireland, then Krakow […]

L’AUSTRALIE

JUST NEED TO SURVIVE 3 MORE DAYS..

Fancy Footwork

the swing set moved. high school ended a long time ago.

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