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A28 Cohort at our COS conference I made a joke in one of our volunteer Whatsapp groups that I wasn’t focused on cultural integration...

I’m going to start this with the same line I use to start almost all of my journal entries. It’s been way too long since I last wrote....

I remember on the ride from my training village to my permanent site last May, thinking about how excited I was for my parents to come...

Green Lake, Seattle (If you look very closely you can see the Space Needle poking out of the trees) The first introduction that I got to...

This post is going to be formatted a little differently than my others. Christmas is an important time of year for me and I know that I...

The school year has officially started. I’m still figuring out how I best fit into the lesson plans and curriculum, but what has come the...

actual photo of me waiting for the bus I’ve always considered myself to be a very competent public transportation rider. Having lived in...

The abandoned amusement park I pass on my running route Oops, it’s been a while! Summer so far has felt a bit like how the process of...

I couldn’t help but smile to myself in the backseat of the taxi when peaking out over the rooftops I could just make out the large...

There is a lot to catch up on since my last post. At the end of May, I was officially sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer and moved to my...

I was sitting with some friends one afternoon in Yerevan when I got a call from my host mom. In my head, I quickly practiced how I would...

I’ve been having a hard time deciding what my next blog post should be about. As PST has picked up the pace, there are so many small...

This past Saturday, Peace Corps arranged for our cohort to visit Noravank, a 13th-century monastery a few hours south of Yerevan. It’s a...

I had only been in my host family’s home for 10 minutes or so when they started asking me where in Armenia I was looking forward to...

I didn’t think storks were real until I arrived at my Pre-Service Training village. In my head, they were just cartoon figures that would...

“Are you moving to Philly?” my Uber driver inquired while glancing back at me in his rearview mirror. “Well,” I said slightly chuckling,...

Welcome to my blog. This is the first of many posts that will be written during my time in the Peace Corps. Now, let's get the sad one out o