A Christmas Wishlist

For the past month, my little host sister Rafaela has been counting down the days until Christmas. Each day she comes into my room, asks me what the date is, and proceeds to tell me how many days until Papa Noel (Santa Claus) is going…

17 December, 2018

The Good, the Bad, and the Intestinal Infections

              Life is like a fresh glass of milk. Squeezed directly from the utters of a gentle mother cow, it fills you with feelings of warmth. It brings, from the throbbing ache in your hands, a sense that your accomplishments are due to your…

11 October, 2018

Ecuapace

It is impossible to imagine how your life will change before it actually does. You throw yourself in, full of ideas and images of a world beyond your own, yet devoid of actual knowledge of what exists. Before the jump, changing everything seems purely adventurous…

26 September, 2018

Answering the Why

As I stand on the edge of my childhood, I teeter from the breezes of the influential voices all around me. From behind, the voices of my teachers, my high school friends, my parents, and all of those who have helped me along the way….

09 August, 2018