Doubts

Moving Across the Country (3): 10 Hours to Arizona

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 First Person ForeignArizona

The long-anticipated arrival to Arizona after driving three days from Georgia to start graduate school!

¿Preguntas Dudas Quejas? | 75 Palabras in Guatemala

February 9, 2017February 19, 2017 First Person Foreign75 Words in Guatemala

Questions/Doubts/Complaints At the end of each session, without fail, we are asked “Preguntas? Dudas? Quejas?” And without fail, there are preguntas. Sometimes dudas. Often quejas disguised as preguntas or simply statements in the form of[…]

“September is breaking my heart!”: Conversations in Alaska, 8 of 50

September 19, 2016September 20, 2016 First Person ForeignAlaska

September 1st rolled around and you could feel it in the air: realization, regret. It’s winding down and the excursions you hoped to take, the hike you were supposed to do and the post you[…]

Should I Stay or Should I Roam Now? | Hamburg, Germany

October 28, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignGermany

The Interview: I sat across a coral-lipped bilingual Brit, who was born in Germany, wearing high-waisted pinstripe “trousers” with a coiffure like Selma Blair’s. I’ll never be cool. I was meeting with her to get[…]

Am I Really Moving Here? Should I Stay? | Hamburg

October 20, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignBeauty

So here’s the thing. I’m here. Today it was sunny. Yesterday it was sunny. The four days before that, the sky was the color of an armadillo’s iris and I could. hardly. deal. The thing[…]

Starting Over in Germany and Sunshine | Hamburg

October 20, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignMoving

As a young hamster bred on the West Coast of Florida, I learned early and often to curse the oppressive sun. Not only did it greet you, it stole your joy with it’s glaring beams[…]

Anchors Over Acreage | Friendship

October 17, 2015April 18, 2016 First Person ForeignBeauty

How Friendship Tethers How is it that I am in a country, by myself, where I don’t speak the language, don’t know basics like “Excuse me,” “Where is the bathroom?” and “Credit card,” and[…]