I didn't join the Peace Corps because they would only send me to Romania and I didn't want that. Instead, I got a CELTA (certificate in teaching English to adults) in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Oh yeah, and I seem to have gotten a boyfriend while I was there. A hot one. Who is a sailor. Could it get better than this?

I'm nominated for Eastern/Central Europe, departure April/May 2006!

HELL YEAH!

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Geneviève Bergeron, 21

Hélène Colgan, 23

Nathalie Croteau, 23

Barbara Daigneault, 22

Anne-Marie Edward, 21

Maud Haviernick, 29

Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31

Maryse Leclair, 23

Annie St.-Arneault, 23

Michèle Richard, 21

Maryse Laganière, 25

Anne-Marie Lemay, 22

Sonia Pelletier, 28

Annie Turcotte, aged 21.
murdered because of their gender:<

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Driving through my hometown on the way back to my apartment, I saw my grandparents taking one of their night walks together, holding hands. Next year, it'll be their sixty-fifth anniversary, which to me is an incomprehensible amount of time to live (three and a quarter times my life so far), let alone to be married ( Read more... )

I just submitted my Peace Corps application. Whoa. Scary. But also I'm excited more than anything.

Life: here I come.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/11/02/cia.report.ap/index.html

And it doesn't sound to me at all like a legitimate use of government power, or resources, not to mention it isn't a positive reflection on the US or in accordance with our founding principles.

Last night after the previous entry, I did something kind of perverse. It'll probably make me angry over time, but it'll also be good for me. What is this thing ( Read more... )

Bush administration to women of America by way of new supreme court nominee's ideology: "All your uterus are belong to us ( Read more... )