This might be something ( Read more... )

Residence permits in The Netherlands are an absolute bitch, unfortunately. To put it shortly, if you want to come here to work, you have to have a job lined up before arriving and you have to wait six months for the paperwork to get settled before you can actually work. Lots of other tiny circular little things have to get dealt with too, but that' ( Read more... )

Anyone know of any kind of business that is not a coffee shop or red light district window that wants to hire an American who isn't bad at Dutch?

All the videos can be seen at http://youtube.com/profile?user=thetraciester and this is perhaps our best one. We got pretty obviously better as we progressed - this one is actually entertaining. It is complete with dinosaurs, tornadoes and national monuments.

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http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=thetraciester

Have THREE NEW VIDEOS! Texas and Arizona did not want us to keep you poor souls posted, but California thinks otherwise.

And, why are we on a road trip, you ask? Because some of our favorite people are living in this ( Read more... )

Elger and I are filming our road trip from North Carolina to California, and last night we edited some of our first footage and made a YouTube clip out of it.

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It's certainly rough, and we'll be unnaturally clever for all of you from now on, but our minimal amount of entertainment so far is attributable to just how boring most of Tennessee (except ( Read more... )

As I left my final undergraduate exam and walked out the doors of the journalism school, I felt like I was wading into knee deep water with a fierce undertow. I nearly had to physically steady myself as the realization that college, the working part, is really and truly over. All that is left to do is walk across a couple of stages in a very blue ( Read more... )

I am eating Haagen-Dazs Bailey's ice cream, and my head is swimming, and I just hosted my first and last college party, and it is over.

I am ready to be done, and this was a nice way to do it.

Get ready, world :D

The insinuation inherent in classifying one group of photographers as concerned is somewhat insulting, because as a fledgling documentary photographer myself, it seems that photography can be nothing but concerned. The very idea of taking a picture of something or someone is latent with concern, or at the very least curiosity. Photographers are the ( Read more... )

:x: Tattoos = none
:x: Piercing =  two holes in each ear, but i own not nearly enough earrings
:x: Height=  five feet, four inches. 163 cm :)
:x: Shoe size = 8 and 1/2, 40 european?
:x: Hair colour = blonde
:x: Siblings = many, all of whom are loud and crazy.

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:x: Movie you watched = Amelie
:x: Song you listened to = "when i look to the sky" by ( Read more... )