August: Bronchitis in Bolivia
Oh August, thank you for welcoming me into this month with a nice dose of Bronchitis. What I thought was just a small cough and sore throat at the start of the month quickly developed into what I later found out was some intense bronchitis. Although …
Bolivia has a lot of different holidays that we usually get work off for. One of these such holidays was on the 17th of July and had the day off. Because of this, my gringa coworkers thought it would be fun to take all of Sunday the 16th to visit …
This month has been an amazing and exciting time of learning, adjusting, and exploring. I’ve felt so cared for by my new coworkers and fast friends I’ve made here already. I’m still in shock that this gets to be my life; living and working in a new and exciting country …
My fundraising profile is now up and ready to view! I will have it linked below and there is more information there about what the money will be used for and what I will be doing for my job in Bolivia. Please leave comments or contact me via email or …
Hello and welcome to the beginning of my adventure of blogging about my life for the next year! As many of you may know (since you are most likely family and friends wanting to follow my journey), in July I will be moving to La Paz, Bolivia to become the …
Today I really missed my mama. Daddy used to tell me some things about her in between his yells yells yells. She loved to take pictures. I wish I could have seen some of her pictures. After I was born Daddy took all of them away.
Instead I found a …
This week was really fun! I really love photography and exploring new was of creating stories with my photos. I found the tips in the different readings we had to do this week really to the point and helpful and I think I learned a lot this week!
Reflecting on …
This photo of my purse shows all the most important items I carry around with me each day. The biggest item is my wallet which carries almost all the most important stuff like my license, my school ID, my debit card and any cash I’m carrying around. The next biggest …
My all time favorite place to go is Half Moon Bay, California. It is one of the cutest towns and most beautiful chilly beaches you will ever go to. To create this collage I just grabbed a few images off of google and used the pic stitch app to put …
Sometimes at night…when I’m really tired…and can’t sleep…my feelings change…and…my face changes. I can’t really explain it, but I just become abnormally happy. All the stress of the day seems to disappear. The only problem is…all I remember of the night…is that calm feeling…but sometimes…I wake up in the morning…and …
As a high school student I took two different photography classes and I’ve always been interested in photography as a kind of hobby. My senior year of high school our building was very old and we still had a dark room in the art department. That set off my enjoyment …
Last night, in a show of great friendship and support, my group of friends decided to join me in a movie night to watch “The Ring”. I was not excited at all to watch this movie and was very vocal about it, but as soon as my friends brought the …
I felt a lot more relaxed about the course this week. I think I have almost found my bearings online and have a better handle on my time and the assignments.
I started out in this course as not a big fan of horror, and I can still say that …
I really enjoyed this video and thought Vonnegut was hilarious! I think it’s really interesting to connect his ideas about stories to “The Lottery” story that we had to read this week. That story seems to defy all of Vonnegut’s shapes of stories. It starts out a little above average …
This week’s content assignments were new and interesting to me. I started out by doing the readings (I read the Poe story myself along with viewing the video). I found these readings fascinating, not only for their content, but also because of how they sharply contrasted each other.
I had …
Daddy never loved me. He told me I killed mama when I was born. Every day he told me he missed her, and he’d never loved me. “You were a mistake anyways,” he’d say. It made me sad. One day daddy kicked me so hard I bled too. I thought …
I like this assignment, but instead of doing my last words I would like to tell the story of my great aunt Maggie’s last words.
My aunt Maggie passed away this past year from complications with cancer. My family was unable to be there with her at the end because …
When I was a little kid, I didn’t have much technology around me. I mean it was the late 90’s/early 2000’s so there wasn’t much technology around yet, but the crowning jewel of my home at the age of five was our television. I would sit in front of that …
This week was a little less stressful and a little more fun for me! I think having a lot of choices in what I was able to create really helped me in succeeding in doing some of these assignments.
Watch and Respond: I was really upset at first about having …
DISCLAIMER! EMBEDDING THIS TWEET WITH THE GIF IN IT WAS THE ONLY WAY I COULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO HAVE IT ON THIS POST ;/
Once there was a girl, minding her own business, just walking. She was determined to reach her destination. She only looked forward. All of a …
After viewing the three short episodes all about possessed dolls I was highly disturbed for a verity of reasons. First of all, inanimate objects having a life of their own is already creepy but for some reason dolls just make it ten times worse. “Living Doll” from Twilight Zone was …
These are a few of the most important things on my bucket list. I have always wanted to visit Ireland and I am so excited because I will be studying abroad there in the spring!! I also have been to almost all fifty states except for Hawaii and Alaska so …
My dad loves to write.
Feelings flow out easily.
Haiku form of choice.
First child goes to school.
Haiku soothes parental wound.
His mark is left here:
“Bards apology
He has more feeling than skill
Haiku is blunt tool”…
This week has been interesting. Aside from the fact that it is the first real week of school trying to get through this ds106 boot camp has been a challenge! I would not say that I am one who is very gifted with technology and on top of that I …
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