I’m sitting in Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, with my Starbucks coffee and the sandwich and chips that I packed (OK, that my mom packed), and for what feels like the first time in a month …
departure
My China Away from China
7/15 A couple weeks ago, I went to Chicago to file in my visa request to study abroad at the embassy. I visited my grandma after. She lives in a senior-community apartment complex on the …
Departure
7:29 AM CDT, June 16, 2015 – Chicago, Illinois, USA I’m currently chillin’ in O’hare, waiting to get on my connecting flight to DC. I walked by five different Starbucks in between terminals. Not bad, …
Getting Ready
So… Apparently I’m going to Chile in a few days. And I’m really excited about it! Even though it doesn’t quite seem real yet. If you told me I could go live in a smallish …
Counting Down the Days
One month. Four weeks. Twenty eight days. Six hundred and seventy two hours. Forty thousand, three hundred and twenty minutes. The amount of time until my study abroad orientation in Arica starts. (Plus 11 minutes …
Happy Birthday To Me
May 25th, 2014 2:08am Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me… Happy birthday dear Brian….. 20 years ago today marks the unmiraculous event of my birth. One of the millions of babies that day …
A (Relatively) Unorganized Adventure
At the moment I am seated in an aisle seat as the massive international plane I’m in cruises across the Atlantic Ocean, just off of the eastern coast Canada. My sister, who will be my …
It’s Time!
Tomorrow I depart for Sydney, Australia! I leave behind all familiarity and venture off to a country halfway around the world in the completely opposite hemisphere! It’s hard to believe the day I’ve been waiting …
Leaving for Seville
Even as I am on board my flight to Chicago (the first leg of my journey to Spain), I cant quite wrap my head around what I am about to do. Sure, I have spent …
And we’re off…
The time is upon us. Countdowns have begun, final preparations put in place, and emotions are running wild. This is it people. I leave for Ghana in less than 48 hours. I am maybe, kind …