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Gentle Quakes: March 2014
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Friday, March 14, 2014. Written on the plane from Denver International Airport to Peace Corps Staging in San Francisco. Do you ever experience nostalgia over the present moment as if it is already a memory? Or do you ever experience this moment with a sense of unadulterated wonder? Or maybe you hover above the present moment. Like a omniscient narrator unfolding and weaving your own tale, picking out the similes, metaphors, planting the foreshadows, searching for the characters and settings that buil...
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Gentle Quakes: Keep in Touch
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Wondering what I'm doing? Wanna drop me a line? Send me some love from across the world! Communication has been turned on it's head since the Peace Corps was founded back in 1961. It is so ridiculously easy to keep in touch! It's almost like I'm not even gone :-). Here is where I am living for the next 2 years:. Now, here's how to reach me all the way across the globe. But feel free to creepily call just to hear my voice on the outgoing message. Beep. Show up at my old apartment for a surprise visit -.
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Gentle Quakes: Micro-Stressers & Happy Thoughts: It's the Little Things
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Micro-Stressers and Happy Thoughts: It's the Little Things. Here are the Top 4 "micro-stressers" I'm referring to:. I love the smell of cancer in the morning.". On multiple occasions, I have been fixing myself some good eats only to find out that the acoustics in the kamar mandi are unfortunately exceptional. The kamar mandi. Stall one. From the first stall peering into the second stall That far wall's door leads to the kitchen. Where are you from? The luxurious days of takin...
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“A grateful heart is a happy heart.” | a drop indo bucket
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A drop indo bucket. For the romantic minimalist, memories make the best souvenirs: A public journal of my journey through the Peace Corps in Indonesia. December 1, 2014. 8220;A grateful heart is a happy heart.”. I saw this written on a wall almost three years ago. And, it has always resonated with me. I journal three new things I have been grateful for each day. I was motivated by a TED talk that said that new things to be grateful for each day were one of the pillars of happiness. The Art of Letting Go.
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December | 2014 | a drop indo bucket
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A drop indo bucket. For the romantic minimalist, memories make the best souvenirs: A public journal of my journey through the Peace Corps in Indonesia. December 15, 2014. December 4, 2014. 8220;Bule”, Bullies, and My Bu. Today I awoke from a nap to voices shouting BULE, BULE, BULE! Outside of my house. I went out on to the porch to find these unrecognizable older male teenagers running around in front of my house calling me names. I began to shout Kurang sopan! Pergi ke rumah anda! Until they ran off.
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Gentle Quakes: April 2014
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Saturday, April 12, 2014. A Day In The Life of a PCT. Written during various nights in my bed under my mosquito net. Today’s PC Indonesia Glossary:. Indo – Indonesian. PCV – Peace Corps Volunteer. PCT – Peace Corps Trainee (Me until June 2. Ibu (Bu) – Mom. Bapak (Pak) - Dad. Mandi – Bathe. Apa – What. Bahasa Indonesia (Bahasa) – Language of Indonesia (language). Bule – Indo term for white foreigner. Ereeka – How every Indo says my name. Needless to say, the past few weeks have already begun to change me.
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Gentle Quakes: January 2014
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Before the Corps: A Timeline. As most of you know, I have been invited to be a Peace Corps volunteer from:. 2014 to May 25. 3 months training 2 years of service). A really really long time). Not that long in the grand scheme of things). I have decided to use this first entry to illustrate the path that lead me to this point. Both as a way to chronicle m. Alrighty, here goes. Embarked on a profoundly life-altering voyage. January 2011 - August 2011:. Vaguely tossed around ideas&...
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Gentle Quakes: Indonesia
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The oldest hominid in the world, Pithecanthropus Erectus, is found in Java Indonesia. Its origin is dated way back from 1.8 million years ago. He is known as "Java Man". The Sangiran Early Man Site, on the World Heritage List, is estimated to have been inhabited one and a half million years ago. Half of the world's hominid fossils have been found Indonesia at Sangiran in Java. About five thousand years ago. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Arab traders looking for the isles where “money gr...
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Gentle Quakes: July 2014
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Ants in my Pants (And Other Reasons to Smile). It was the day of Idul Fitri. This day marks the end of Ramadan where Muslims in Indonesia and around the world celebrated one of their most important holidays. In Indonesia, families travel to their hometowns and break their month long fast together. They also visit their friends and neighbours to apologize for things they have done in the past and may do in the future. Can you see the lingering horror in my eyes? As we headed for ...