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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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Take Me to Church
One of my housemates is currently looking for work, and so each morning last week he greeted me with this song, belting out the only words he knew (“take me to church”): Today it was stuck in my head so I looked up the lyrics, only to find (much to my amusement) that the song isn’t about a […]
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Oklahoma City
Okay, so firstly, this post has nothing whatsoever to do with Oklahoma. Nor does it have anything to do with the US. Nor even travelling, for that matter—instead, it’s about yet another stupid idea that I had. My great idea—pauses to groan and face-palm—was to try online dating. Oh, how I wish I were kidding. I mean, I […]
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Dissociation
It has been a big, big month. There have been a lot of ups and downs—realising someone very important to me is very sick; finding out I got a scholarship for my course; meeting my uncle for the first time since I was 8; getting good book reviews; getting bad book reviews; letting go of […]
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Rainbows, redwoods, and waters hot and cold
Rotorua saw us taking another leisurely late start to the day, as I trotted off at the thoroughly reasonable hour of 8:30 in search of a shower. Now, while Base let us use their showers, these were not the showers for their regular customers: they were pleb showers. I’m surprised they didn’t make us use a different […]