I am sitting under a brown blanket on brown bedsheets in my dorm room, the first time I have seen the place in over a month, and I am sick. If you take the ‘everything happens for a reason’ line of thinking, I suppose this could be signaling to me that it was a positive […]
Expectation is the enemy of humility. I don’t know if that’s a quote by anyone famous, but it’s something that I’ve put away in my mental filing cabinet for whenever I feel like I’ve failed at learning something. And trust me, on this trip, there have been many times when I’ve felt like I’ve failed. […]
Last week, I found myself in a locked room. I had no key to get out, so I knocked – lightly at first, but then more insistently – hoping someone could come to my aid. No reply. I proceeded to become more and more frustrated and sincerely thought about throwing myself against the door, screaming, […]