Sarah McMillan

Sarah "Kip" McMillan was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. A self proclaimed storyteller, she has taken up spoken word poetry, for which she has local recognition. At her high school she started and ran a Harry Potter Quidditch team. She is a vegan, which has contributed to her interest and concerns with the problems of industrial food production and global health.

8 Tips for Ecuador Vegetarians

Sarah McMillan

2013-05-02

I know many of those who apply to GCY are vegetarians. Unfortunately, living abroad can make eating vegetarian difficult. But the good thing about living in Ecuador is that being a vegetarian here is totally possible. It’s harder than in the States, yeah. You might have to watch what you eat more carefully, but it’s...

Dead Bodies

Sarah McMillan

2013-02-28

One day my Ecuadorean family told me we were going to move the bones of my mom’s dead father and first husband. I was like, okay, it’s some kind of ceremony where we rest their coffins somewhere else. I was right about the ceremony part. After work, I go home and much of my extended family is getting ready...

Spanish Language

Sarah McMillan

2013-02-26

Learning Spanish through immersion is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. Not that I’m done, but it’s pretty amazing to be doing. You notice more about your own language, too. For example, English is pretty rigid, sentence structure-wise. In Spanish, you can put words all over the place and it still makes a decent sentence. It’s great...

Never Have I Ever

Sarah McMillan

2012-09-24

I wander the town like a stranger and mostly I am but I feel like spitting fire, like I always have, I feel like making myself open, like I always have, like saying anything that people could understand, anything would do, really, but my tongue is made of cement, just like every single house here. Every single one, I...

Branching Out of the Books

Sarah McMillan

2012-07-10

In my experience, branching out of the books helps me understand academics more. My freshman year in high school, my grades were atrocious. We’re talking failing math and German—atrocious. If you’d asked me then, I would’ve said it was because the teacher was too tough or I wasn’t smart enough but the truth is, my...