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cherries, choppers

June 18, 2011 Uncategorized

After my cafe sesh today I was supposed to head out to the Olympic grounds to visit Skateistan, where I planned to meet the crew, volunteer at a girls’ sports session and chat about whether I can be a volunteer climbing instructor now that they’ve installed an indoor rock wall. (And yes, there was the selfish hope that a bonus might be meeting fellow climbers who could organize an outdoor sesh this summer) Unfortunately that didn’t go as planned. AsRead More

my so-called bifurcated reality

June 17, 2011 Uncategorized

It’s strange when all the connections to your life back home are reduced to the few odd late-night hours outside of the work day (when you can manage to get your patchy internet service to connect) spent looking through digital photos and bits of text that represent other people’s lives, occurring simultaneously but also 12 hours earlier or later than you see it. Kind of like the way we see the light emitted from stars that are millions of miles away, butRead More

June 7, 2011 Uncategorized

I have a house now, and aside from a few minor issues like the plumbing being bad, bugs biting us, the walls showing signs of leaks during past rains, the water pressure being terrible, and a host of other fixes, it’s pretty nice. My room has its own bathroom, a windowsill wide enough that I can put a cushion on it and lay down in the sunlight, there is a collection of fruit trees in the backyard garden, and outsideRead More