Disclaimer: If you would rather listen to me read, here is my YouTube link to my edited audio:  https://youtu.be/7z9CgeZ0HO4 “I saw you guys.” The second she said those words I could feel the rocks hit the belly of my stomach.    Oh boy.   My agi Vijaya loved to playfully taunt me. Her jokes bared…

16 April, 2020

Chennai: Photo Diaries This is an entire highlight reel (kind of ?) Chennai was my first stop upon my independent travel trip and boy did it shake me up. Before Chennai, I thought everything was going to be quite……nonchalant?  Ever since I got to India I would say I easily adapted. With ease, I got…

06 January, 2020

For the longest time, I felt that I could not write. I have the privilege of my hands, brain nevertheless writing utensils to do so, but mentally a prison’s gate resided on top of my journalistic hopes and dreams. I felt like what I had to say about India would never be enough to surmise…

30 December, 2019

Danielle Diaries: Fears at 3 am: “To be or Not to be that Is the question?” I want to be brutally honest with you guys when I tell you that it is currently 3:33 in the morning. I am currently in a netted bed with mosquitoes ready to devour my skin to the point where…

11 September, 2019

Danielle Diaries: “Childhood Nostalgia Meets Overlapping Dreams of a Barely Adulting Adult” Dear Diary, (Between August 25th– September 4th) It feels weird. The years of pinning to leave home has finally culminated to this moment.As a passenger on my continuing flight I can’t help but think about everything that has led me to this moment….

11 September, 2019