Does altruism exist?
Is there such a thing as altruism? It’s an old question, with a contact high from so many dorm room debates and jittery after too much time in coffee shops, but I’m wondering… Continue reading
Category Archive: Africa
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Where to find, where to miss, and how to kill the divine.
The coarse wool of my djellaba was scratchier than the sand blowing against my bare legs. Maybe the other way around. One does not customarily wear shorts in the desert, but I welcomed… Continue reading
Censorship; or, Celebrity ____ likes to smoke ____!
Anthony Bourdain was in Tangier. That’s an interesting city, and from what I’ve seen of him, an interesting man, so I put my book away to listen. But in this boarding area in… Continue reading
6 Ways to be better at my secret aspiration
Want to know a secret? I’d love to try being a tour guide. Sssh! Don’t tell! My prior experience with tour guides was when they would glower at me, suspecting me of eavesdropping… Continue reading
~Guest blog from/for my friend Lisa in South Africa
Today I’m reblogging, but wordpress and blogspot don’t seem to allow cross-website reposting. I feel like the proverbial kid whose parents won’t talk to each other. In the summer of 2010, before I’d… Continue reading
Yikes, don’t read this one unless you are really bored.
I was lying in bed just now, full of that Thai food from the last post (the one with the red curry burps) and was thinking about regrets. Or maybe Disney. Or maybe… Continue reading
Border Crossing and Zambia
Traveling is full of different challenges from back home. Taking public transport when you don’t know the language, the system, or any of the place names. Bartering properly, which changes between countries. Ordering… Continue reading
Near death experience on the banks of the Zambezi River
The word “soothing” is itself soothing; is that onomatopoeia? I guess that’s not enough for a blog post, so I’ll tell you about the time I almost died by the mighty Zambezi River.… Continue reading
Nurturing smiles
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then let me summarize the differences between the Zambian orphanage and the South African ones. First, South Africa: Some of the boys, seeing me… Continue reading
Ithemba La Bantwana
These are the first three pictures I took in Soshanguve, the township outside Pretoria, South Africa where we did our volunteer work in July. We had literally just stepped out of the car… Continue reading
