So the news is, I’ve found a job. Or rather, it has found me. Dropped onto my lap in the most unexpected way a week ago. I went asking about a volunteer opportunity, was invited to apply for an internship, and ended up being offered a full-time position. All in the span of 3 days. […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Tech
The parents left for London today. Just in time for the Olympic madness. They’re going on a 3-week tour of Western Europe, just the two of them, which leaves the remaining 3 members of my family all alone to fend for ourselves. This means washing and cleaning duties to be shared, and cooking to be […]
Chance
I logged on to Facebook this morning, and was greeted with a flood of “RIP”s and “in memory of”s and “we will miss you”s. Another Grinnellian from my class has left our side. They say my class, the class of 2012, is cursed. In the last four years of school, 3 people have tragically passed […]
Stay forever?
Winter last year. My friend and I spent a week in Des Moines with an Egyptian family who welcomed us with open arms: partly because they’re warm people who love visitors, partly because they have 6 children—the youngest of whom is 3 months old, and the eldest, 11. They’ll readily admit that they need all […]