the nature of the beast the whereabouts of a peace corps volunteer in the west region of Cameroon.
travels
red teeth for a week
5/22/12 I’m overwhelmed by the radical emotions I come across here. In a day I can start out happy—wake up, turn on taylor swift and mix up my instant coffee with a spoonful of target mint hot chocolate mix (thanks katie!) and powdered milk. After only a few hours I’m fuming after being called “la […]
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 […]
nashville weddin
my roommate when i lived in nashville got married the other weekend and i flew out to see it all happen. it was the most beautiful and classic nashville wedding that ever occurred. pretty sure. they had the ceremony on the pedestrian bridge that crosses the cumberland river. the reception was on the rooftop of […]
clif notes
the trip consisted of ten days sailing around the bahamas with my parents following a well known boat race around the abacos islands. at the end of the ten days my parents dropped cresson and i off at one of the main islands where we headed to the airport and hopped on a plane to […]
my babies went to amsterdam
I’m sitting in the Union computer lab with Ferrell right now as she prints off airplane tickets and talks about a last 53cent drink from the Kwik shop before leaving me. Everything comes so quick I don’t even have time to really think about what’s happening. I am happy about getting to eat anything in […]
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 […]
itchin to get outta here
fishing, reading, boating, tanning, beaching, sand boarding, frying, grilling, eating, playing, exploring, thinking, dreaming, writing, movie-ing, floating, swimming, bocce-ing, drinking, sitting. I can’t wait. But I have to. One more week!
dream day in lawrence
To all my Lawrence readers: if you could have a dream day in Lawrence what would it be? I finally had mine Friday. After my early class ended, I headed to Mass St. to roam. It’s my favorite place to wander. I had called The Dusty Bookshelf earlier to check on a book, and Josiah […]
Ketching Up
finally posted pictures from old adventures. just blowing of the dust, i guess..
top 5 travel quotes
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with […]
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 […]
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 […]
a letter of love
Dear Morocco, I will come again someday to watch your sunsets and sunrises, sleep on your sand and drink peppermint tea with you. But you cannot make me eat your food. Ever again. Love, kim
adventures
hello hello! I´m still alive mom We arrived in Barcelona last night right at sunset. It´s really huge, but the buildings are beautiful. It was death trying to find parking so I´m glad we got to turn the cars in early this morning. France was breathtaking. Every picture I took is a postcard.. and I […]
Thpain
i’m alive pamplona spells like pee, and is stained with sangria. san sebastian is one of the most beautiful beaches i’ve ever seen. i teared up watching the sunset behind this lighthouse on an island. mm. Slept on the beach
"Last Day"
It’s my last day in Trier for school and with classmates! Tomorrow I embark upon an epic journey. I leave for Madrid tomorrow to meet africa matt and his international groupies. I haven’t had time to get excited yet though, because I’ve been so busy finishing up with school projects and such. The semester wasn’t […]
Lux City
An old friend from High School (Tommers!) wrote on my facebook a couple weeks ago saying that he had just been in Trier for dinner, had no idea that I was studying here, and that he was studying in a small village in Luxembourg. So of course I hopped on the train early friday morning […]
Köln: chocolate&surfing
I’m heading up to Köln for tuesday and wednesday—my very first solo abroad trip. I’m couch surfing with a girl named Annika, and another couch surfer from Lithuania! I planned the trip from a spontaneous need to visit the chocolate museum they have up there. Excitment! ………………………………………………………………………………………. Köln/Cologne was sooo fun! I arrived after a […]
part:KRAKOW
At the castle Namedy I got a crush on a boy, and decided to visit him in Krakow after hearing how awesome it was from Kuba, the boy, and bunches of other people. Pretty silly and spontaneous of me, because I wasn’t planning on really ever going to Poland but I did now and I’m […]
Part: LONDON
So we arrived in London in the morning after a night without sleeping and running amuck in Dublin. Needless to say we were extremely tired, and we still had an hour and a half bus ride to get to the center of London. I used someone’s last few minutes at an internet cafe in the […]
3 more countries! Part:DUBLIN
An update from Dublin, London and Krakow will come shortly after I bake some brownies and eat them 😀 hold tight Ok so, the brownies turned out pretty ok. Nothing compared to american boxes brownies—oh my word. Anyway, I finally caught up on all the sleep I missed while on my big trip. Let us […]
An extra long synopsis of Amsterdam
Finally back in Trier from a long few weeks of travel travel. Two days after I got back from the castle I left for Amsterdam to celebrate Queen’s Day with the 5 Americans and some of our friends from Trier—Oula from Finland (he also just answers to “Finland”), and Jelena and Marthe who are both […]
Oh Hai Princess
This past week was so crazy and so amazing, and to be honest I can’t believe it was real. I got the opportunity to participate in an international project where 77 young artists from 7 schools in poland, germany, belgium, france, and ireland came together for week-long workshops in different facets of art leading up […]
Berlin and Dresden
“..there are more exceptions to the rule than instances of it..” Mark Twain in The Awful German Language Oh man, OK so finally there’s a little time to give an update on the past few adventures—sars ktd! A couple weeks ago I was in Dresden for 4 days and then to Berlin for 3. It […]