July 25, 2018 Learning to Swim with Sharks: How to Survive the Traffic of Taiwan (And Life) Back in August 2016 when I first arrived in Taiwan, I’ll never forget one of the first information sessions our training group had. Most…
July 18, 2018 Waiting On Maria The day is Tuesday. July 10th. Here in Taichung, we await the arrival of Typhoon Maria, who seems to be escaping her planned parade…
July 4, 2018 On Coming Home Do you ever find yourself too close to a situation, so close that you come to realize the only way to gain perspective is…
June 6, 2018 Somewhere Over the Pacific *written mid-trip to America, whilst sleep deprived and without connection to the outside world, so take what I have to say with utmost caution, or don’t* To say I am excited to go home is an understatement. I’m pretty sure my countdown started at 100 days to go. I’m so stoked that I’m sitting in seat 25K, staring out the window, wide awake on a ten-hour flight from Taipei to Vancouver, knowing full well that not getting sleep is going to be so fun later when I finally make it to Chicago. Good news is that I’ll sleep really well tonight. That’s for sure.
June 3, 2018 Claim Your Story It was Groundhog Day. The skies were grey and the snow was speckled with tufts of grass peeking out over the blanket of white. At around eleven in the morning, kids piled out of the maroon double doors. Dressed in warm winter jackets and colorful snow pants, kids leapt into the snow banks with gleeful smiles on their faces. For a winter day in Wisconsin, the weather was about average. But today would not be any ordinary day.
May 30, 2018 A Day In the Life It’s 7:00 A.M. The sun shines through the ginormous window in my bedroom. Wiping my tired eyes, I make my way out of bed. …
May 27, 2018 Three Things I’ve Learned While Living Abroad As I prepare to go home to visit for the first time in nearly a year and ten months, it baffles me just how…
