salutations, explanations
Hi & Hello from somewhere superlative, a way for me to reach out and keep in touch while I'm somewhere (everywhere) this year.WHY? I've chosen to study away from Brown for my junior year through...
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Packing
How and what do you pack for a 9 month, 1-backpack trip? I stayed pretty close to the minimum amount of stuff on my packing list, and actually wasn't stressed by what I packed but rather all the stuff...
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As in radical, which is definitely what IHP RG is. In a good way! A weeklong retreat in West Virginia was a whirlwind: 20+ new friends who are essentially family, intense "community building"...
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I wanted to write a final post about DC but wasn't able to, so hopefully I'll be able to get some photos up soon. A brief synopsis: We (IHP group) stayed in the basement of a church called The...
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A few photos
A samosa on the roof of the IHP classroom in Lodi Colony, New DelhiPeruvian food & a random street in DCWriting papers in the basement of The Pilgrimage, our hostel in DCIt's really difficult to...
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An attempt
.. to explain some of things I've seen and done in India! Much love, Jess Durga Puja- a shrine to the Goddess Durga (aka Kali Ma), the destroyer of evil. Staying in Chittaranjan Park, a 99% Bengali...
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here here, somewhere somewhereKiswahili for "oh you know, I've been just been here and there and around somewhere"A journal entry from the first few days in Zanzibar, an island in the Indian Ocean off...
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12-28-10Spent 2 days looking at and learning about Sisal (relative of Agave)-- apparently the most sustainable plant in existance! And now I can't stop seeing it-- spikey rows sprawling throughout the...
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Hapa is kiswahili for "here," and I was finally starting to feel that understanding seeping into my brain and beingwhen a 40 hour whirlwind landed me in Wellington, to meet a new hapu-- Maori for...
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wellington looks like this:
INTERIOR SPACES: [I will go take some actual photos of the city]View of the valley of Karori suburb from my homestayCan you see the windmills turning in the southerly breeze?Michel Foucault, anarchist...
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estados unidos de mexico
Fernando, director of La Escuelita community center in Santo Domingo, with Mojdeh the Mexico City IHP coordinator and Kara, looking over the mural depicting the wreakage of colonization and women as...
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