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Unfunny
This is not going to be a jolly sort of post. I’m also going to include a trigger warning. It’s freaking 2am again, and I can’t stop thinking about an email I received two days ago. I’ve been tossing and turning, needing to write about it, so figured I’d give up on sleep until it was…
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Colombiana Blanca
I received one of the greatest compliments of my life the other week. It was, naturally, at the hands (voicebox?) of a Colombian. I’ve said before how much I love Colombians [eg here and here; Colombia blog posts]. I admire them for so many reasons: their friendliness, their hospitality, their passion, their overwhelming loveliness. I feel like,…
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Week of Colours
It’s been a while—I’ve been extremely busy writing papers and having fun. It’s a hard life, right? Seriously though, working on my papers has been fascinating (though sitting on my ass in front of a screen all day every day is not what I am built for), and I’ve been having a lot of adventures while doing…
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Moscow Eve
Tomorrow morning I fly back to Russia, nearly two years to the day since I left. I’m going for 5.5 weeks, and it should be…interesting. Naturally I haven’t started to pack yet, but my room is getting extremely clean, so that’s good! I have very, very mixed feelings about going back. I guess the only…
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Integration
The other night I was waiting for the bus home from Russian class. There were two others waiting with me, both brought up in Belgium, and one was going on an anti-immigrant rant. I’m sure you’ll be familiar with the ‘migrant crisis’ that is currently underway, so I won’t go into too much detail. Suffice…