Circumspecte

At one point or another, everyone travels. Whether you’re walking down a couple of blocks to the supermarket to get your favorite snack, or you’re seated in an airplane thousands of feet above the ground, traveling offers an opportunity to experience something new. In my life time I’ve done a good deal of traveling, and I have realized that with each step I take away from home, I get a greater appreciation of the world and most especially how similar people are despite our obvious differences. My first time away from home was during a weekend Girl Guide camp in Accra, Ghana. Although the camp location was a mere hour away from my house, the flood of excitement and fear that washed over me when my mum dropped me off made it seem like I would be a million years and a day away from home. Those two days at camp however proved to be a cornerstone in my life as they made me more responsible and willing to step out of my comfort zone to take risks and achieve my goals. When I got accept...

Hiya! Wow. It's been sooo long since I wrote anything on here and I've been slacking so bad. That's not to say that nothing has been happening though. Nah, the earth still rotates. Okay, so I'm just gonna do a quick recap of a number of stuff that went on. Sometime in November we had the Toussaint...which is kind of like the fall break in the US...and I had a whole week to myself...only I decided to make it a working vacation since I came across this English tutoring job called Playaway. I worked as a "monitrice/animateur" for 8 days at the Playaway centre in Sommiere (a small town about 45mins from Montpellier) and it turned out to be the greatest working vacation I ever had (considering it was my first official one). Anyways, I got to work with a group of great people and connected with many of the french students who were there to learn English. Naturellement, j'ai appris un peu de francais moi-meme...mainly because I sat in on a couple of classes. If y...