April 4, 2006
Life After School
I'm not graduating this May, but I am already wondering what it'll be like after school. I'll have been through 19 years of school by the time I graduate May 2007, and more and more I look forward to the end of this extremely long period of my life. I look to the period after the BA degree as a time of choice and extreme freedom, but it's a scary transition as well. My excitement outweighs any anxiety i may have, though.
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Spring Fever
Not a very creative title, I know, but spring fever is here, and it's presence is strong. You can see students laying on the Gallaudet mall, soaking in the rays between classes. With the sun's persuasive rays making their way to every crack, through blinds opened and closed, a 50 minute affair (class) becomes agonizing. Open windows reveal gorgeous blossomed trees and milling Gallaudet students. Very few students are not wearing flipflops and shorts/skirts. Those unlucky students in class are peering outside, and I can bet you they're thinking, just 5 weeks left till summer vacation. Spring fever has hit, at full blast. ; )
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December 4, 2005
Backpacking Part IV: An Eventful Turkish Border Crossing
Whew, I’m glad I was able to get this ‘notebook’ at a booth near the train station in Istanbul, because I have a lot of writing to do- I’m six days behind! It’s hard to believe, the time flies by, that it does. Last I left off (in the other journal), I was on the train to Istanbul, Turkey. That train ride was pretty uneventful, until the border crossing. When night came, we took shifts sleeping. The people on the train looked suspicious, and, on heightened alertness because of the contractor’s warning, we were paranoid. But taking shifts isn’t paranoid-it’s smart.
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Backpacking Part III: Romania Part II- More Deaf People in Unexpected Places
Again, this is an excerpt from my journals written live during my travels in Europe last summer.
We paid for a two-hour metro ticket (they allowed us both to use it) with money we had ‘set aside’ and which I hadn’t included in the amounts stated before. We arrived at the train station, and they have this section cordoned off where people have to pay to get in the train station, run by people in official uniforms. I still have no idea what it’s for or why they make people pay, but we got in without paying, acting lost and confused and deaf (great acting, huh?)
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Catching Up: Backpacking Part II- Romania Part I: Beauty in a Third World Country
Here's another journal excerpt from my European travels last summer.
Me on a train ride.
Picture taken by Robyn Girard
6-22-05 (Tuesday)
We were stuck at the Bucharest train station for maybe 20-30 minutes before getting onto our next train, to Suceava! They were getting ready for this broadcast there, though what the subject was, I have no idea. There were three different channels there getting ready to broadcast, I’m assuming at 1 pm.
Women and their female children were selling blankets, tapes, etc. throughout the ‘waiting’ area, outside the trainstation between tracks. When we got on our train, we had to wait perhaps another 45 minutes before finally leaving. During this time, people were constantly coming in and out trying to sell this or that. Some came in, dropped several products onto the seat next to us, then proceeded to the next car. When done, she’d (always a female) come back to see if we wanted anything (nope), then take it all back and perhaps move to the next car.
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