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Don’t lose yourself, don’t let yourself be lost
April 30, 2008 in Personal · 2 comments
It is far too easy to get caught up in the magnitude of my situation and what lies on the horizon. It is far too easy to obsess over what is coming while forgetting what is before me now. In all of this madness it is, unfortunately, far too easy to lose myself.
Read more of this article.The future’s not ours to see
April 29, 2008 in Personal, Recommended · One comment
Over the last few months I’ve really felt myself begin to understand the meaning of faith. It comes down to believing that what you are doing and who you are becoming is what and who you are meant to be. It is being able to find peace in your decisions and comfort in the unknown. For someone so used to planning every detail of my life, lessons in faith have been hard to learn and have never come easily.
Read more of this article.Take me in and dry the rain
April 28, 2008 in Personal, Recommended · One comment
April 28, 2008. In exactly four months I will be, in all likelihood, on a plane leaving my world and all I know and love behind. I must be crazy. Who in their right mind willfully goes to be alone in a foreign land, in full knowledge of the fact that they will be unable to communicate properly for weeks and months? This isn’t sane. This isn’t normal. This is the first time in my life I’ve taken a step completely in the dark and totally unaware of where my feet will fall — be it on solid ground or nothing at all.
Read more of this article.For every single breath that I take
April 22, 2008 in Personal · No comments
I think I will always wonder what could have been with Dickinson. Really and truly, I think I could have found great friends there and am truly sad I will never have the chance to find out “what could have been” at Dickinson. It really is a great school and I would have loved to go.
Read more of this article.meet you at the statue in an hour
April 20, 2008 in Personal · No comments
I am strangely excited for Irkutsk today. I wish I had my visa. I wish I knew what day I was leaving. I am excited to be in Russia, finally living there, breathing everything Russian for an entire ten months. Today I’m not nervous, I’m not scared, I’m not worried… I’m overwhelmingly curious and antsy. I know that next year will be hard, but I know that it will also be full of invaluable life lessons and unpredictable adventures.
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