February 2012
4 posts
Only in Macedonia
Does your evening start out at the usual coffee bar you go to with your friends when you have nothing to do-you continue on to a person’s house who’s nickname is “the elephant” with your aforementioned friends-the house happens to be a log cabin in the middle of nowhere-you drink beer, sit on stumps around the fire, speak four languages, get the car stuck in the snow, and...
January 2012
8 posts
December 2011
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November 2011
9 posts
Can't speak English.
Me: What’s that ear thing when you can’t hear?
Elena: An ear infection?
Me: No, the ear machine
Elena: Uh, a hearing aid?
Conversation about holding a health conference:
Elena: You know, we can have a part of the conference be about how to properly clean yourself on a daily basis.
Me: Uh, you mean daily hygiene?
Thanks for the high downgrade on my English level, Peace Corps.
92834 breadz.
Today was the fortieth day anniversary of Baba Mitka’s death. I didn’t go to Virce with the mindset that I was going to be spending time at a cemetery (why did I think otherwise?). Therefore, when I arrived I was shocked when people were weeping, and I had to walk down to her grave in a procession with a giant pan of… some sort of bread. After there were no more tears from the...
WatchTotally worth the time. Watch itzzz.
October 2011
13 posts
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Good Morning.
Deborah Eveland: I hate paula deen: “There’s nowhere in [the U.S.] that eats more vegetables than us Southern folks,” she says. “We love our fresh green beans and new potatoes and fresh butter beans.”
Deborah Eveland: are those even real vegetables Deborah Eveland: those are legumes Deborah Eveland: and high glycemic indexed starch
“Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via John Green’s tumblr)
WatchAmazing. Check out this video about rural Roma children in Eastern Europe.
September 2011
14 posts
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Thoughts of my apple cider, hay rides, mulled wine, whiskey when I can’t sleep with Jenna at Barrel 44, winning the award for ugliest pumpkin carving, eating mami’s soups, planning a really elaborate and awesome costume for halloween, and wearing a hoodie with my hood up on my bike and hearing the leaves under my tires. Ohhhhhh I am homesick today.
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