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I'm finally, and all of a sudden, busy. In a good way. I'm taking yoga classes, and they make me feel good all around. I'm volunteering as a conversation partner at the International Center to help people who want to improve their English skills. It's fun! My first partner is a Korean woman my age whose English is already almost as good as mine. We ( Read more... )

Last weekend I moved into an apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. The neighborhood is nice, with tree-lined streets, garden apartments and 2-family houses, tons of schools and schoolkids, and families from practically every country in Asia and Latin America ( Read more... )

I've got me'self a real job! I'm working for Idealist.org/Action without Borders, and it should be pretty awesome. I started this past week, on kind of a temporary/trial basis, and after seeing some of my work, they want me to stay ( Read more... )

In the past few days, I ( Read more... )

So by now, I've gotten used to men making comments at me as I walk down my street. But one that I got today was particularly ridiculous ( Read more... )

Mad Hot Ballroom was so good! It was the most fun, exciting movie I had seen in a while. Made me wanna dance! And now my head is full of merengue, which is not a bad thing. I just fell in love with those Washington Heights kids! And they were such good dancers! I'm excited that I'm going to live in Washington Heights for a little while; maybe I'll ( Read more... )

So, for the first time in my life, my future is completely uncertain. In general, it feels pretty good. But I freak out a little bit every day ( Read more... )

Each day I'm going to ( Read more... )

I just read this paragraph in No More Prisons"Most well-intentioned people who 'work with kids' overlook a simple law of high-school social dynamics: The community-service nonprofit crowd is by and large the same set of people who got good grades and did their homework. . . . Many 'at-risk youth' are the 'popular kids' who cut school and had ( Read more... )