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Silent Sunday: Double Trouble Easter #easter take two. Time to grow a second stomach. #mealmarathon #neverquit A photo posted by Lu (@travelinglu) on Apr 5, 2015 at 11:54am PDT

#Chicken #Easter #Eggs #Home #Instagram #Midwest #Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday: An Afternoon with the Arts

#Art #art in motion #arts #disco ball #fountain #Free #free travel #MIA #Minneapolis Institute for the Arts #minnesota #Mnneapolis #muesum #Travel #Video

The smell of lemons and cheap Champaign

As I come in the door I sling off my tie and slip my feet out of my ugly black work shoes, relishing the feeling of my toes wiggling free. Its been more than 14 hours since I left this morning and after a long day working two jobs, my mom curled up on the couch, watching the daily show, is a welcome sight.

I flop down next to her and launch into the daily debrief of the office job and the…

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#adventure #Auxiliares de Conversación #books #Dream #lemons #Mallorca #read #reading #Spain #work

Silent Sunday: Cat Burrito

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#Burrito #Cat #Kitty #minnesota

Silent Sunday: Morning After

Great night early morning. #whathangover #iowacity #somuchcleaning #merica #tophat

A photo posted by Lu (@travelinglu) on Feb 28, 2015 at 6:48am PST

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#Black and White #Instagram #Photography #Study Abroad

Driving while ugly crying is not recommended.

Sometimes the tears made it hard to see and the semi-hysterical breathing occasionally hampered my steering abilities. All the while the dark hole feeling in my chest led to some questionable speed decisions. As I zipped by, drivers and passengers taking their standard glance at the passing lunatic turned their faces away faster than usual; I was ugly crying and it was not likely a pretty site.…

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Letters from Madagascar: Rain adventures in Manakara

During the two weeks I spent in Manakara, my classmates and I took a three day trip to a lemur research station in Kianjavato (Key-ahn-za-vah-too). We spent those days in the rainforest, getting drenched in rainstorms, and running after lemurs. One day, while doing a transect, it began to downpour in the way that it does in the rainforest. None of us had a raincoat; when we looked at the sky…

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#Lemur #Madagascar #Photography #Study Abroad

Letters from Madagascar: Thoughts on pull carts

Dear Friends and Family,

All in all, the situation with my host family was everything I could have hoped for, and more. Then, to round things off, I absolutely loved the city of Manakara. It was, however, a complicated city to love. The colonial influence was much clearer there than anywhere I had visited so far. There were large, colonial era storehouses (now abandoned), wide paved streets,…

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#colonization #culture #home stay #inequality #Madagascar #Photography #Study Abroad #Travel

Silent Sunday: Can you find me in Google street view?

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#camino #camino de santiago #google maps #Photography #pilgrimage #Spain #Travel

Letters from Madagascar: Magic pools and amazing food

(From November ’14)

To my lovely family and friends,

After about a week and a half in, I packed up my still-wet stuff and we headed off to a site managed by Missouri Botanical Gardens (it’s a big whoop in the botanical world) a little bit to the north. We spent a night there, and then drove one hour north to another protected area. There, we walked through a rainforest for an hour to a pool…

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#CEL #host family #Madagascar #Study Abroad #Travel

Silent Sunday: Snow in Iowa

#iowa #iowa city #snow #Snow Storm

Silent Sunday: Snow in Iowa

#iowa #iowa city #snow #Snow Storm

Letters from Madagascar: Dancing for joy in the rain

Hannah is home again, but continues to share stories and letters she wrote from madagascar. Over the next… WLN will continue to share her adventures with you.

(written November 2014)

Hello Family and Friends,

A quick note on leaving Faux Cap and heading off to field camp.

We left off with Faux Cap. Soon after returning from Faux Cap,I packed up my de-flea-ed bags (it was a joyous and wonderful…

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#Faux Cap #Madagascar #Photography #rain #Study Abroad #Travel

Silent Sunday: Deia

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#Deia #espana #gr221 #hiking #majorca #Mallorca #mallorcan year #palma de mallorca #Photography #Port de Soller #Spain #Study Abroad #Travel

Auxiliares application pt. 2

Lord protect me. I have been a fool.

(It’s Monday right? Because yesterday was the weekend. Anyway, moving on…)

Hoping to return to the land of Santiago

Growing up it was not uncommon for someone to say ‘the Lord (God) protects the stupid and the young,’ I may no longer qualify as young, at least in this context, but I certainly qualified as dumb when I did not triple check my Auxiliaries…

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#application #auxiliares #Auxiliares de Conversación #no pasa nada #Spain #teach abroad #Travel

Shaking fingers and pressing send

I shook my head in frustration as I entered my birthday for what felt like the hundredth time. Day. Month. Year. Year written as the full date. Days and weeks with zeros before the single digits. Again. Again. The wiring between my fingers and my brain feel so overwhelmed with emotion that my fingers shake, as if all of the apprehension and excitement could escape through the pads of my fingers.

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#auxiliares #Spain #teach abroad

Some Words Monday: I DONE DID IT!

So we its been a bit quite here, but I was busy packing up and taking finals last week. There is something draining about that level of activity that just left my writing well feeling a bit dry. But this is a new week and it’s almost Christmas, so I can’t be tired any more! Why? Because I say so.

Something else exciting happened this week. More specifically on Saturday…

I GRADUATED!

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