Just a week ago a man passed away. His name was Dan Cloutier. At his wake, there was a 2 hour line just to view the body and greet the family. People came from all over New England. Dan was a young man with two adopted children who had won numerous golf tournaments, had a well paying job, and was a strong figure in his community. Yet, the people ( Read more... )

I just got an e-mail tonight about how the hills look surrounding Kathmandu valley, and it just made me miss Nepal so much more. I want to see it in every season. I want to see it during the monsoons when there are clouds pressing in all around, I want to see it in the harvest when the rice is being dried in the feilds, I want to see it in the ( Read more... )

This may sound strange, but these feilds of rice, brick buildings, and long rainstorms feel more natural and more like home than the United States ever did. I have gone my entire life trying to see just where I fit in, and I hate to say it, but its surley not in Rhode Island. I love it back home. It's beautiful and fun, but this... This feels right ( Read more... )

I AM IN NEPAL WRITING IN MY LIVE JOURNAL. I AM THE COOLEST.

So I coulden't really sleep... I'm sore, shaking, and my cheast is all weird. That can mean only one thing - yet again I coulden't wake up to take my albuterol. But no matter ( Read more... )

I have two more days before I leave for Nepal...

So I'll be on my way to physical therapy in just a few minutes. My knees are already numb from swelling, and my legs are shaking... This is going to be painful. At least they finally got me in. They didn't call me back for over 1 month. (Leaving me only 2 appointments before I start walking constantly in Nepal.) Then when they went to confirm my ( Read more... )

So much is going on latley. The summer is finally here... And what's setting in most of all is how much I am going to miss all my friends, and how much I am going to miss Justin... The last year and a half has been amazing with him. I love spending time with him, talking with him, and just being with him in general. I really love him... And I'll be ( Read more... )

For the last year I have heard talk about applications, acceptances, decisions, deposits, prom dresses, prom pictures, graduation, graduation parties... And I felt so far removed from it all. In a way it just felt like another year at school, and all these wimpy people were just searching for random bits of closure. It turns out to be a fairly ( Read more... )

My doctor said with these travel medicines there was a possibility of extended REM sleep, meaning I would have longer dreams... Longer REM actually means that you get stuck in your dreams. And pleasant for me, I tend to have nightmares. Graphic, terrible nightmares. And as the medicine was working its little medical miracles on my resistance to ( Read more... )