October 2011
23 posts
A Demographic Dividend
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For the past week, I have been looking at, trying to write, and have been procrastinating completing a communications presentation that Allie and I may or may not have to make. Normally, trying to adapt an 89-slide presentation would be mundane enough as is. However, when I am having my own problems trying to communicate at work, I am not quite sure how it makes sense for me to be piecing together...
Watchwwf:
“Think You’ve Got Problems”
A recent entry to our film competition.
2 weeks left to the deadline.
On being the worst vegetarian ever: An account of...
Warning: This post is really about eating snake. You might not want to read this…
If anyone ever told me that for my friday night dinner I would be doing some fine dining at a snake eatery, I would have told them that they were out of their mind. However, last night that’s exactly what happened. I think I might be the worst vegetarian ever… but I eat fish, and I can count...
I’m a different person in Waterloo than I am here. I think I care more when I’m at home. I’m more afraid. Afraid of offending people, not having friends, afraid of things not going the way I want them to. More than anything though, I am someone who knows that I am a better individual when I’m not at home. I’m more open to new experiences and more true to myself.
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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves....”
– Pico Iyer
It's not weird, it's perfect.
Work here definitely is not what I expected… However, things were even more surprising on Friday. I went into the day absolutely dreading it. I woke up knowing that Allie and I would need to teach two English classes. Given that the Beginners’ English that we’re teaching was to people who (a) we’d never spoken to and (b) our boss, this really nice, but incredibly...
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“Today’s travelers are very fortunate to have the wealth of readily...”
– Thomas Stanley, America in 100 Days
Steph Higgs, this is for you.
Today, I was politely informed that my blog doesn’t say anything about work. What I do, where I work, and if I like it or not. Although I was already getting that vibe from my family, I did not realize that it was also making some of the third years anxious to hear. So, here we go…
I am now two weeks into work and love every minute of it. I was so anxious when I got here. My first...
September 2011
22 posts
