by Claire Montgomery
Tomorrow at 3:30pm I will be taking off to Raykjavik, Iceland. After a two hour layover, I will take off to London Heathrow, and from there I will make my way to Kings Cross Station, board a train, and choo choo to Edinburgh. Hi everyone, it’s me again. I am reviving the blog as I…
Three of my friends and I from school decided that it was important to us to attend the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017. So we figured out a way to get ourselves to Washington D.C. and it turned into a fun adventure if a long car ride. I’m really happy I went.…
Today my French professor is dressed up as a medieval French soldier and in the middle of our French class the rest of the professors in the department came running in all dressed up as soldiers and they had a sword fight in the middle of the class. And then another guy dressed up…
Today I deleted the Facebook and Twitter apps off of my phone because those are the two most distracting things in my life at the moment. Sit down to do homework, open Facebook, get up an hour later having done no homework. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time I gave the real world a try. So…
Pioneer Camp 2016 For the past three summers, I’ve counseled a week long summer camp at the La Foret Conference & Retreat Center. Pioneer Camp is one of the many summer camps hosted by the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ, and it’s something I absolutely love to do. I love counseling…
I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been procrastinating the writing of this blog post for a while now. It’s not really flowing off the fingertips like some of my posts do. And I think the reason for this delay is because my life has taken somewhat of a dramatic turn in the last two…
I lived in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil as an exchange student. I learned how to speak Portuguese fluently. I lived with two different host moms. I met other exchange students from all over the world. I cried. I took a surfing lesson. My family came to visit me. I laughed. I studied in…
At the beginning of our exchange year, there were eight Rotary exchange students in Natal. Then the number dropped to seven, when Haven got sent home. Now the number is down to five, because when June came, so did the despidadas (farewells). Pierre left on the thirteenth, and Veera on the fifteenth. I knew…