Even though my internship in Ghana is a time and place very, very far removed from my current realities of air-conditioned apartments, eat-all-you-can dining hall meals, sociology class readings, and white people discourses, I still think about that little town in the north of Ghana very often. Written 1 year and 2 months ago, and […]
Category Archives: Life the Subject Matter
The Card
“It’s not love, and it’s not not-love.” I sometimes feel like we’re in a limbo here, doing a dance in which one is confident and sure-footed, the other uncertain and stumbling. We go through life expecting to be dealt with a few tough hands. But occasionally, life deals you with cards you completely did not […]
Stay forever?
Winter break 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 […]
Cereal
Granola cereal and vanilla yoghurt. Granola cereal and vanilla yoghurt in large amounts, for breakfast, lunch, or late-night munch-time. Granola cereal and vanilla yoghurt at 3 a.m. on a weekday to stay awake during an all-nighter, and at 3 a.m. on a weekend to satiate a drunk food craving. Granola cereal and vanilla yoghurt, just […]
Two weeks
Two weeks of school left. 13 days till my brother and sister arrive in Grinnell, and 15 days till they see me walk the stage during Commencement and finally get my bachelor’s degree. How do I feel about this? I don’t know. I am ready to move on to the next phase in life, cos […]
Guinness
Yesterday started like any other day. Except, it wasn’t like any other day. It was May 1st, 2012. In American date format, it was 5.01.12. Grinnell’s zip code is 50112. Yesterday, was Grinnell Day! (Whatever that is.) For most people in Grinnell (townspeople, professors, students, staff), yesterday started off normally; by 5:45pm, however, about 1200 people made Grinnell […]
If you see me (Clap once)
Oooooooo, okay. I re-read what I wrote in the last post, and even I thought I sounded —what is that word— self-admiring? Self-approving? Perasan? “Sometimes I make up my own recipe”? Hello, any person who randomly throws handfuls of ingredients into a pot is making her own recipe! I want to make it clear that […]
Dancing and Cooking
Tonight, I feel really good. After many days of 6-hour long rehearsals, and many more months of hard work prior to that, tonight, we finally opened. It was a really good show. I felt so much energy in all of our performances. I’m extremely excited to see how this can be intensified over the next […]
2011, marshmallows and barbs
Huuummmm. I wrote this after ushering in 2012, but left it filed under ‘drafts’ and never bothered to edit it for coherence. Might as well do it now that I’m on spring break. * * * * * So we’ve moved on to a new year (we’ve moved on about 15 days ago, actually), and […]
Traditions
I’m gunna create traditions, as many as reasonably possible. For my family, for my future family, for my friends, for wherever I will call Home. Traditions, I realize, are the center in your life, that thing that, in times of turmoil and confusion, makes you feel like the world makes sense once more. And at […]