Reflections

Wings

As the month of June gains speed and the days slip away I am reminded of the fact that I will be leaving everything I’ve known very soon. Summer, it seems, is going by faster each day, and as I continue making preparations for my departure reality is setting in. Today, I found out my…

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Reflections

A gift

But first, a timeline: 7: number of days until I finish my last exam of my undergraduate career at Cal 9: number of days until graduation 10: number of days until my second summer job begins 2+: number of months until my sister’s wedding 4: number of months until I leave for WorldTeach Ecuador With all…

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Ecuador

I left my heart in Latin America

It happened. This morning, approximately 2 minutes after my alarm went off, I received an email notification from WorldTeach telling me I was accepted to the September 2015 Ecuador program. After their email about notifying me by early June, I was stunned, to say the least. Right at the moment I had more or less…

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Reflections

Patience

Throughout my youth, my parents, teachers, and friends used a variety of adjectives to describe me. Curious, my dad would say, thinking of the millions of questions I asked. Adventurous, friends might add, referring to my constant activity and trip planning. Industrious, my teachers would include, remembering my prolific and analytical essays. One word that no…

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Reflections

Suspension and Resilience

I was never much of a science student. As a high schooler, I was much more interested in Spanish and History than chemistry or physics. But there were a few lessons in biology that fascinated me and made me wonder if maybe I had a scientist deep inside me after all. One of those lessons…

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