Prancing around Alagoas during my birthday month.
Tag Archives: Wonder
2016: February
The beginning of my Fulbright grant: Adventures in Miami, orientation in São Paulo, and head-over-heels excitement in Maceió.
B’quilla Take Eleven
Our last month taking in everything Colombia has to offer: Goodbye classes, gorgeous landscapes and great company.
B’quilla Take Ten
Resolved The Dengue Affair, received The Best Surprise from my mom and cousin, and romped around the coast in November.
B’quilla Take Nine
Costeño Heat celebrating birthdays, Halloween and each other during October.
Advice for the Road
Look back and smile. Appreciate the butterflies. Cherish the coming and going. Be okay with leaving. Feel your emotions. And then let them out into the world. Write things down. Scream when you want to. Sing out loud. Cry when you need to. Bounce around when you just have to. Look up. Take deep breaths. CloseContinue reading “Advice for the Road”
Death, Movement and Stillness
This is the last month in which I can say “My dad died last year.” Yup, I’ve thought about that. Usually we count down towards the future in anticipation of something, but I know it has been eighteen months or a year and a half since my dad unexpectedly died; and in one month, itContinue reading “Death, Movement and Stillness”
From Brain To Mouth: KB & codea Edition
Being back from our Central America trip doesn’t mean we have to stop blogging about it right?! Here are some preeetty funny, insightful, silly, and ridiculous things that we said during our time abroad. We hope you laugh, think, wonder, and wander while reading them. Also, enjoy the picture below, for it is priceless. KB:Continue reading “From Brain To Mouth: KB & codea Edition”
Nicaragua & Costa Rica: Top 10 Most Ridiculous Things That Really Happened
We miss being abroad. We’d re-live all of these moments in a hot sec: 1. The bus driving away with our backpacks and passports on it. And us engaging in a bus chase with a taxi. 2. Leaving our passports in the first hostel we stayed in in Nicaragua. 3. Christine chased a Nicaraguan kidContinue reading “Nicaragua & Costa Rica: Top 10 Most Ridiculous Things That Really Happened”
Travel is Relative
We received travel vouchers for successfully completing our Peer Mentor internships with API, and we used them to purchase our flights. We booked them in October after continuously searching for flights to anywhere. We decided on Costa Rica because we had heard wonderful things from #hAPI study abroad students – we added Nicaragua in because,Continue reading “Travel is Relative”