Enfin, je m'assieds et écris quelques choses en français. Ça fait plusieurs mois je m'avais dit que il faut vraiment je commencer cette exercice. Ce n'est pas facile; ça prend trop de temps, mais c'est une étape très nécessaire à améliorer le français. C'était comment j'amélioré mon anglais, par écriture, donc ça doit être la même façon cette fois ( Read more... )

Nostalgia has hit me quite harshly this week. And for the first time in a long while, I thought about livejournal. I suppose I've more or less abandoned it since I began my Peace Corps blog. Throughout this past year, I have revisited livejournal to make some private entries in attempt to document my private life. This week, the wave of nostalgia ( Read more... )

1:29am. I’ve spent more time at the library than I have my entire college career. Isn’t senior supposed to be a BLAST? I suppose my definition of blast is slightly different from the norm. This is perhaps my most productive semester/year apart from sophomore year. As I’ve said many times before, I am busy out of my mind but I love it, 90% of the ( Read more... )

What an odd day! My mood fluctuated all over the place for no apparent reason. Perhaps the lack of sleep over this past week caused it, because I certainly had good reasons to be chipper and feeling uplifted. Last night was the awards dinner for SEIC. After going through the motion of cocktail hours, where I was not in the schmoozing mood and ended ( Read more... )

Currently in Social Justice class, we are reading The Corporation by Joel Baken. Last class we watched a documentary film on sweatshops, in particular Wal-Mart's exploitation in Bangladesh. Before the film, the prof. asked that if we've purchased something at Wal-Mart in the past year to stand on one side, if not to stand on another. The result was ( Read more... )

I am far too awake for having only slept 4 hours for the Nth night in a row. Last night, after another typical 20-hour day, I actually had problem falling asleep because I was so wired for all the caffeine I've been injecting into my body. Month 4 of the Peace Corps cannot come soon enough. By then, I will hopefully be assigned to a permanent post ( Read more... )

Sitting at the Bread Co. on this Sunday afternoon. I am procrastinating a bit, since there are more important things to be done, like the APM report. However, I actually have a legitimate reason to be writing since this counts as social justice writing practice. Gotta love that. A bit disappointed since I had wanted to study at the Meshuggah café, ( Read more... )

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