old friends, good times

a quick update for ya...

i am going on week 6 in the city! yesterday my best friend dave came up to see me from tennessee...he will be here for 10 days, and it will be great to have an old friend help me get some perspective on this new life of mine...

i am so grateful …

finding home in the strangest places

hello friends! it has been, once again, an insanely long week! today marks my one-week anniversary of arriving in my new home! it is interesting that while i felt home almost immediately in the city, it has taken much longer to get used to school and community living …

more than 3 weeks and a lifetime away

i find it very interesting that only 3 weeks have passed since i arrived in the city and it feels like i've been here a whole semester already...

there has been something distinctly different between this and the other places i have gone to school. i have certainly …