Wandering around the Warorot Market, I flashed a photo to a vendor, who pointed me toward a narrow stall to my left. Down the aisle, I lost momentum, and presented my picture to someone new, who gave me my next direction. After wandering downstream like a lost pinball, I found myself underneath some foreign overpass (again!) amongst the treasures I had been searching for: grani...
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Month: July 2013
Summer, School Year – What’s the Difference?
Hello there! My name is Lindsey, and I am a senior Neuroscience major and Linguistics minor. I haven’t posted on the blog yet – I had to send my laptop in for repairs a few weeks ago, and after receiving it yesterday I have finally regained sanity (as is the life of a college student). This summer, I am doing research through SURP funding about language processing and the effec...
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First-Time Renter in DC
I somehow managed to fall across the listing for the Office of Presidential Correspondence’s Associate Program, which I thought would be a great experience for me. I worked for the Obama campaign last summer as an incoming first-year, and thought that experience that I gained as a summer fellow, along with my interest in public service, would make me the best candidate for this...
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Back to the Beginning (and the East Coast)
So here I am, back on the east coast. I know I haven’t been blogging lately about my summer experience; it’s just that I’ve been ridiculously busy with my internship and life in general. I started my internship with the Office of Presidential Correspondence in late May, so I’m about halfway done with it now. But before I go into the details of that, I need to go way back before...
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Meet My Housing Justice Internship
Hello all! This is my first post for Voices, although I am already a little over one month in at my summer internship in San Francisco. Thanks to funding through the CDO, I am able to work five days a week at a housing justice organization in the Bay Area. This organization uses a service approach based on that of the Black Panthers' community work, hence the photo. I am loving...
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Bangkok in Pictures
Northern Normandy
Sallie left and, the last night in Paris, Claire and I tore the map in half and we wandered with map halves, finding our way surprisingly well. Now we are settled in near Dieppe at a place that is not in fact a farm, but a bed-and-breakfast that has a little garden in the back. Roses everywhere - When we run out of work we clip the dead ones and Claire has suggested that soon ...
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“Home”
Recently, I have been musing on the admittedly hackneyed concept of “home,” both alone and with my Pomona peers. Growing up in a close nuclear family with strong Northern California roots, I was, until recently, able to reduce “home,” in all of its abstract incarnations, to a place, a town, a block of 1920s track houses with too-narrow driveways and small patches of lawn.
I ...
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