August 2010
1 post
Memoirs of a Gaijin
Well after a 10 hour and 45 minute flight across the Pacific ocean we finally arrived in Japan. While I’m amazed at my hardly tearful goodbye to my family who I haven’t spent more than two weeks away from, I know that this will undoubtedly be quite the challenge for me. I mean come on, it’s hard to ignore the ridiculous humidity, being stared at like some alien (pun intended),...
June 2010
2 posts
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
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The Kite Runner
Is a beautiful and powerful novel that I throughly enjoyed reading. I strongly recommend it for the eager reader, you won’t be disappointed.
April 2010
1 post
Hello Old Friend.
it’s been a while.
May 2009
6 posts
Refreshed.
I’m feeling abnormally exuberant lately. Maybe it’s because one of my best friends is back in town for the summer. Or maybe it’s just the optimistic vision that everything will fall into place and work out as it should. Personally, I think it’s a combination of both.
I’m not sure why I just felt reflective and wanted to express my thoughts before bed, although...
Bittersweet
It’s amazing to think that a whole year as gone by.
I feel as though it was just yesterday I had mounds of clothes on my bed, worried that my new roommate would be judging the fact that I packed more than almost anyone on my floor…while being from the same town as our school. And of course I could never forget Olivia and her terrified little face as she admitted to being all the way...
Release
The rays of sunshine
Lighting up your face
The dancing leaves and swaying grass
Congratulating your release
The wide open blue sky
With scattered clouds across the way
Birds chirping their welcoming tune
Of a long awaited arrival
The wind playing with your hair
Sweeping it across your pinkened face
Your dress swirling as it plays
As you know summertime is finally here
Trapped
I got to get out of this place
I got to get out of this town
I’ll sail the ocean
I’ll get out somehow
This place is suffocating
There’s too much sound
People’s voices are echoing
Even when they aren’t around
I can’t handle much more of this
There’s only so much I can take
This sceneary and familiar faces
Are going to make me break
I’ll...
April 2009
6 posts
Haunting.
This feeling is inescapable. It comes and goes like waves, flooding my thoughts with past sweet memories. I cannot simply ignore these feelings. Try as I might, I cannot deny its presence, and I cannot pretend that I do not feel the way I do. They say time heals everything, and I am not exactly even sure I am wounded. But if I wasn’t, then why do you keep coming in and out of my thoughts?...
Summer anticipation
This summer I would like to accomplish the following:
Continue practicing piano
Document every day on my Greek/Mediterranean adventure
Take more pictures than I currently take (which is nearly none)
Read all of the books that I’ve spent so much money on, and all the ones I have yet to purchase
Study organic chemistry functional groups to refresh for class in the fall
Paint
Write a...
A typical tuesday
my tea is still too hot to drink.