so. i'm here on a 90 day tourist visa. which expires tuesday. gulam, a guy from the office that knows tons of people in dar, went with me to the immigration office to get an extension, since i'm coming home dec. 13. well, apparently TZ is no longer doing visa extensions. SO i have no clue what to do. one of his friends said to write a letter saying ( Read more... )

i leave here exactly one month from today. guess i need to start my christmas shopping...

one day when i'm famous and i google my name this won't be the first thing that pops up:

www.honors.wvu.edu/UG_Research/ UG_Research-Pages/Image132.html

yuck.

after i spend time on myspace, it's like, is EVERYONE married now?! sheesh. slow it down a little will ya ( Read more... )

so it's been raining for the past two days, which is good, but all of the roads are flooded which causes mad traffic. people here can't drive to begin with and throw rain into the equation and it's chaos. i can't do laundry becuase it's raining either. my clothes won't dry and they'll get that rained-on feel, which i hate. this afternoon i went to ( Read more... )

where in the world did this month go?

just updated my ipod for the first time in like, a year. organized everything and it took like, all morning. i fell in love with pete yorn again. i used to listen to that all the time in high school. most of the music i have, and i'm sure it's a universal thing, but each song takes me back to a place in life. like, if i hear relient k, i think of ( Read more... )

i took a 4 hour nap today and now i can't sleep ( Read more... )

what the fuck am i doing here. i have done maybe one day of work since i've been here two months, if that. i feel so held back here like i could be doing so many things in the states. but i know that even if i went back, which i'm not, i probably wouldn't be as proactive as i think i would be. maybe after ten more months of this i'll be just ( Read more... )

so i moved into my place yesterday. after staying almost 2 months with the Briscoes (an amazing family from South Africa), I moved into the upstairs at the office i'll be located out of. (i say located out of because i'm not really an employee here, i work for their parent company). and since yesterday i have done 2 loads of laundry BY HAND. yeah ( Read more... )