Archive | Issue 5: 2019

I first heard of the SEA Semester ships from crewmates on another boat I worked on around Puget Sound. They regaled me with stories that can only be had on the vastness of the open ocean: the coral reefs, the mysterious engine room, the 1AM ramen in the galley. As I listened, they set about […]

Unknowingly sign up for an island bike tour. Fumble for balance while you try to pedal over eight kilometers of narrow gravel roads. Achieve a good three meters. Cry—because you haven’t done this since you were seven and you’re just as terrified as you were then, because all the stylish French and German students on […]

In my time in Lyon, I discovered an array of nuanced characteristics in many public spaces. These qualitative features combine to create a specific “spirit of place,” or in other words, the indescribable feeling that a certain place can offer you. I spent a lot of my time wandering around the streets of the outdoor, […]

We hear the phrase “Tahiti-time” quite often around here, usually as a justification for a delay in departure or in getting class started or something of the sort.  I think it’s rude, honestly.  There’s a lot I can’t do if I have to be ready for class to start at any minute.  I can’t go […]

Intentional or unconscious, graceful or bumbling, the inevitable disruption of travel drives us to create new sequences of movement—choreographies to regain grounding. Tahiti Time by Esme Meza-Guzman Danse de Villes by Megan Sellman How to Win at Being a “Foreigner”​: 16 Steps to Doing Dublin Right by Kara Eagens Life Aboard by Andrew Chin misplaced journal entries by […]

I remember lots of laughter and games, I remember breathtaking landscapes, I remember rich learning experiences, I remember daily ocean hugs, I remember puzzling contradictions at every turn, I remember high tensions. I’ve never been able to make sense of certain experiences, but it seems that the more I try, the less I’m able to […]

Without expectation, without knowing I was searching for anything, Japan welcomed me through comfort in order, chaos through contraction. I have never arrived in a place that felt so foreign and made so much sense—where without fail, eager strangers welcomed me. A place of such striking natural beauty that the whole country stopped to take […]

Dedicated to and with help from the writers studying abroad in Rome, Autumn 2018 A bird flies onto the ledge of the church’s window. The sunlight the window casts over a painting on the inside is superimposed with the bird’s shadow. Inhale the wood of the pews wetted from damp autumn thighs and dried again, […]

These pieces sprang from moments of heaviness, moments which I felt the need to, in effect, pull a screen through. To sift and congeal through collage. Most rest as sideways articulations of the cities CHID’s History, Memory, and Human Rights program spanned; of Vienna, Krakow, Berlin, Budapest, of Prague fading into winter. Others harbor more […]

It is Day 10, and I still have yet to figure out proper time management in the mornings. My hair is soaking from my cold shower and my makeup isn’t quite done, but I scramble onto the bus, peanut butter banana toast in one hand and backpack clumsily slung over my shoulder. I’ve gained a […]