My heart is conflicted. Well… not really… but it seems like it an awful lot of the time lately. Since I left Hope in May, my life has revolved around politics. All summer, I worked at a free/low-income health clinic in Traverse City. With the health reform bill coming quickly, a lot of changes were …
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My Love Affair with Cool Beans
I’m not sure how it started. I’m not sure when it started. All I know is that it’s here to stay. What could I be talking about? My new obsession with all things coffee. I didn’t grow up as a coffee drinker or in a coffee drinking household. My parents, in accordance with Ugandan culture …
SUPER WEEK AT HOPE!!
It has truly been such a great week at Hope! It is always crazy to me how fast the days and weeks and months speed by! It seems like just yesterday I was just a freshman starting my first day! So many great things happened this week. For starters, Grace had her birthday and we …
Best Date Day
Last Saturday my boyfriend and I celebrated my birthday together. He didn’t tell me any of the plans; he just told me to be ready to go by 10:30 am. So at 10:30 he came to my cottage and picked me up, and we biked to my favorite restaurant deBoer’s together. After the delicious meal, we shopped …
Good Times, Better People
This past weekend two of my best friends came to visit me! I hadn’t seen them since February, so it was great to spend some times with them. I met Laura and Tanmayee in middle school orchestra, but we didn’t become good friends until high school. Laura and I both played the cello, so in …
To a Friend
As the weekend draws to a close, I think back on what I accomplished over the past couple days: Designed an informational flyer for my internship Set up a Twitter account for my internship Finished lots of Accounting homework Read some interesting articles about Interpersonal Communication Played some games with friends While working on and …
The Career Development Center: Helping Millions (well, almost) Discover their Careers
Dale Austin is one of the coolest people ever. Have you met him? I’m sure you’ve seen him walking around campus, taking someone out to lunch at the Kletz, or strolling through the Pine Grove. I met Dale on my excursion to Gainey Ranch, as he was one of the many professors and staff from …
Opportunities Beyond Hope
This past summer Hope provided me and 11 other students the opportunity to study abroad in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. I learned so much and enjoyed living in such a beautiful city for the month of May. My typical day in Spain: 8:30 wake up and enjoy some strong Spanish coffee 9:00 walk 20 minutes …
The City of Sevilla
Sevilla, España. Originally, it was founded circa 800 A.D. as Hispalis, a Roman colony. It has been conquered and reconquered since then by the Visigoths, the Vandals and the Moors, until the Christians reclaimed it midway through the 13th century. Most notably, Sevilla served as the sole port to the New World, ideally situated on …
Adapting
I have spent the last two weeks getting accustomed to living in a foreign land, speaking a language I am clearly not fluent in, with a new family, whilst trying to make new friends. A bit overwhelming. Yet in only a week’s hindsight, it’s not a stretch to say that it has a lot similarities …