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Istanbul
Istanbul is a lot of things: breathtakingly beautiful; humid; dusty; bursting with history, people, and noise; where East meets West; and where old meets new. Cars and storefronts blast American pop songs and Arabesque. Mosques compete with their calls to prayer. Cats hiss, dogs howl, seagulls squawk. Car horns erupt in a cacophony of sound, cut by ( Read more... ) -
Versailles
Sometimes I think traveling from Iowa to South Florida is like going to a different country. Last night, we went to Versailles, a really established Cuban restaurant in Little Havana on Calle Ocho. We had an authentic two-hour long Cuban dinner, our table stretching from one end of the room to the other (and there were still some family members ( Read more... ) -
chisme
So, those of you who know me know that I spent a lot of time in my parents' frame shop growing up.
Well, I've got some chisme for you ( Read more... ) -
homework, homework, i hate you, you stink
Spring break is making me stupid.
Why can't I concentrate on what I'm reading?
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Guilty Confession #452
Sometimes when I scroll down my facebook friends list and see the girls I went to high school with and their risque photos, I have condescending thoughts ... But part of me wonders what it would be like to have a perfectly toned body like theirs.
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Turkey
I was officially accepted to my study abroad program in Turkey!
whee!
Pretty soon I'll be here:
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50 years of ridicule
However tongue-in-cheek this song is supposed to be (not very), it makes me sad ( Read more... )