Reflections about an unexpected gap-year experience in a nursing home.

The summer after I finished high school I felt pretty invincible. I had spent my teenage years striving for bigger things, grabbing every opportunity to learn and explore, challenging myself and working towards getting better. This earned me a scholarship to study my two last…

29 March, 2017

Learning to Learn

There is this misbelief about people who take a “gap”-year that I´ve repeatedly come across, and that for some time, I bought into myself. “So I guess you just needed a break?” “That makes sense, some people need a bit of time to figure out…

18 January, 2017

Learning to learn.

There is this misbelief about people who take a "gap"-year that I´ve repeatedly come across, and that for some time, I bought into myself. “So I guess you just needed a break?” “That makes sense, some people need a bit of time to figure out…

15 January, 2017

Reasons to smile.

I honestly thought that it would be easy to fall in love with Ecuador. As it turns out, it hasn’t been. That isn’t to say however that there aren’t reasons to smile and to be grateful. And so I thought I would make a list…

17 November, 2016

Culture shock.

For the past few weeks, I have been trying very hard to boil down my experience to a blogpost which is both concise and accurately describes my time in Ecuador without glorifying it or omitting my struggles with adjusting to being here and loving Ecuador….

09 November, 2016

En Route

I'm trying to keep my eyes open after not getting more than a few consecutive minutes of sleep throughout the night. At this point I've already travelled for twelve hours, with another seventeen to go before I arrive in San Francisco and pre-departure training. I…

22 August, 2016