it is so hot guys. i love haiti, i do, but damn. so last night we went salsa-ing a k' danse! i am still too scared to show off my new moves around so many people though, so i didn't dance. it is so fun to watch though ( Read more... )

so. i am in haiti. sweating a lot, and having the time of my life. i am learning kreyol bit by bit, and i am also making friends here, which is awesome. i am working with great people, and i am excited for another intern to come for two months starting monday. i am also i as i type this making friends with a cat, which as a lot of you know is ( Read more... )

okay so i have been frantically unpacking/packing for haiti, practicing creole, and trying to see friends before i go. since graduating i had a few amazing days with my elon girls, and a lot of quality family time. my mom's birthday was today- - she is fifty :-) life has been wild and busy, but nothing too exciting or really worth report. and ( Read more... )

long day. long night ahead. just thinking about how lucky i am. good friends. good family. good life.

i can't help but think that i owe someone for all of this.

it is raining and i can not sleep. for those who don't know me that is a big deal because the sound of rain will put me to sleep in the middle of the day. so since i am awake and unfocused i thought i would leave a note for posterity ( Read more... )

it is one of those things. getting older, and watching the people around you do the same. it is one of those things that is hard to think about, because of the blankness of it. the unknown that is to come. whatever- i can't wait. whatever it is that i don't know about now, i think it is beautiful, and i can't wait for it! i am not worried ( Read more... )

a very smart friend of mine once told me that a study was done proving the existence of 1,000 compatible people to ever person on this world. 1,000 out of 8 billion. so we don't always meet them. sometimes we settle. sometimes we make it work. i see nothing wrong with that. how do you know you're settling? it can't hurt if you don't know ( Read more... )

let go.

i saw the avett bros this weekend. it was incredibly amazing. as was the company. as is always.

"smell of hospitals in winter, and the feeling that it's all a bunch of oysters with no pearls. all at once you look across a crowded room to see the way that light attaches to a girl." -Counting Crows ( Read more... )