So god damned angry, right down to the base of my belly. Broiling, rolling flames of righteous indignation. How dare you be so ignorant of the gravity of this? To make such an insult out of the reality of millions of lives. You think they planned it? You think they deserved it? It wasn't their sins or their poverty that was the cause, it was lack ( Read more... )

My room is nearly empty, most my stuff's been packed. The crowds are getting thinner and my exams are all complete. I'm preparing to leave my little island once and for all. I'm filled with an overwhelming bittersweetness. I have had so much joy here, so much sorrow, so much learning. It seems impossible to relate across the page. Everything I've ( Read more... )

All I want to do now is look at pictures. I don't know why, but I'm posessed by a picture-browsing spirit. This is normally a whim I could happily indulge, but considering it's 11:15pm on the night before my environmental management final I probably shouldn't. So instead I'm updating (a little counter-productive, but deal with it, ok ( Read more... )

Cadbury Factory tour this past monday. Oh my goodness. Everything smelled of delicious chocolate. There were thirteen of us who went. We got to sport hair nets as we were detailed the history of the factory while being given free samples fresh off the presses. Did you know that Australia is the fourth largest consumer of chocolate in the world ( ( Read more... )

June is slowly approaching and I'm beginning to realize the small amount of time I have left here. I will depart for the mainland on June 19th, which means there's only about three weeks left in Tasmania. Three weeks. Twenty-one days. Four exams. A million moments. A thousand new memories. I'm starting to look beyond this island to the things that ( Read more... )

So, the last two days have been interesting. It started thursday night while I was finishing a 10 page report on urban water management and Ben was finishing a 3,000 word paper on wrens. It slowly turned into our own personal computer lab work party until 3am. And the strange thing? I've never seen so many people in the computer lab than between ( Read more... )

Ok, I finally gave up on trying to bother with posting pics on LJ and instead found an easier medium for me to work with- Yahoo! Photos. So, if you want to see some pics of my adventure here so far, feel free to go to http://photos.yahoo.com/wpwgirl and nose around to your heart's ( Read more... )

This past weekend was spent driving o'er hill and dale of the Tasmanian countryside. I arranged to rent a car for saturday and sunday so that Adrienne, Ben, Diana, Taylor, and I could hit all the various sites still left on our respective "to do" lists ( Read more... )

I've been staring out my window all day, willing myself to fly. The sky was so beautiful today, the clouds edges singed red and orange with the day's fading rays. Much too beautiful for my eyes, I wish I had wings. It's possible, isn't it? Tell me it is and I'll work to make it so. Build myself freedom one feather at a time ( Read more... )

Everywhere I've gone today has smelled like hardboiled eggs. It started at breakfast, but that makes sense since they serve hardboiled eggs. However, my Sustainable Cities class should definitely NOT smell like eggs. Nor should the bathroom, my room, or the mailroom. I keep checking my shoes to see if I stepped in hardboiled egg. Nothing. Alas ( Read more... )