i'm in India! want to know more? look to http://anna-abroad.blogspot.com

i unceremoniously give up on livejournal.

i'm in portland, oregon with my long-lost kathryn. never has a vacation tasted so good...we're aiming for six meals a day. the looming victorian houses and hundreds of thrift stores make for my kind of town. tomorrow, in preparation for thanksgiving ( Read more... )

i got accepted to study abroad in India.

details, actually, to follow.

maciej has only been here for 12 hours and already i have experienced the greatest pain on earth, when what i thought would be a delicious forkful of avocado turned out to be a forkful of wasabi. today we're going to coney island, possibly never to return ( Read more... )

my cell phone died this morning, and was quickly replaced by another that looks exactly the same, but without any phone numbers in it. if YOUR number isn't in one of the roomies' phones (pennsylvania and chicago people esp.) send an email my way at anna.carlsen@gmail.com, or be lost in the ether forever.

i'm back from israel, and i wish to god i wasn't. give me back my ticket. i want my full 90 day tourist visa, and a ride up to the syrian border above the galilee where i can sit on a rock and watch the clouds flicker over the minefields for the next three months.

there were many more people i meant to say goodbye to before i go traipsing off to israel, particularly certain individuals in chicago, but all the goodbyes have this bizarre air of finality. people keep telling me they have a sense of foreboding, and then they put their hand on my shoulder and look me very sincerely in the eye and say "don't get ( Read more... )

i passed hebrew and didn't embarrass myself too badly, either. i am going to israel in 4 days. i am making strawberry shortcake in 4 minutes. who wants some?

did you know that there is a town in minnesota called Embarrass?

my research paper is already the required fifteen pages, and i'm beginning to see that it cannot be finished in less than another five ( Read more... )

did you know the air around the Dead Sea has 8% more oxygen than anywhere else in the world ( Read more... )