This is a more personal piece about the culmination of our trip: a multi-day trek across the high Atlas Mountains in order to reach the village of Amsouzert. For the majority of the trek, we had no cell service or access to utilities like running tap water, electricity, or paved roads. We were trekking and camping […]
Archive | Issue 4: 2018
Learning the Ropes
I love all outdoor sports, but climbing and skiing above all. However, in early 2017, I fractured my collarbone in a skiing accident. Fortunately, a week before departing to Auckland, my orthopaedic surgeon cleared me for all athletic activity. Thus, when I first arrived in New Zealand, I wanted to run, jump, hike, ski, and climb […]
What About Coming Home?
My photo journal was inspired by Abby Talkington’s Memorandums in the 2017 issue of Neither Here Nor There, using excerpts from the journal that I kept while I was in Europe. I created the Sense of Satisfaction graph to illustrate how quick and easy it was for me to integrate abroad compared to how […]
Poppies
Poppies. I saw them all over the Netherlands. They were the pop of color in every field or yard, and I always felt drawn to them. They were so common that no one ever minded if I picked them. I dried them in notebooks, gave them to my friends and professors, and kept them in […]
mood
I wrote this piece on my last morning in Quito, Ecuador. I would be flying out that night, but in that moment I felt very calm. I had gotten into a routine in Quito, and it was odd to think about how my routine was about to so dramatically change once again.
Spirit of Lyon
I studied abroad for a month in Lyon, France. In that short period of time, I fell in love with this amazing city and wanted to capture its beauty through my viewfinder. My program was about seeing critically and thinking visually to show the spirit of the city in any form of art, and in this case, […]
The Four Pillars at Home and Abroad: A Series of Haikus
Loyalty foes replace neighbors safety of person or soul when do we resist? Industry Moors and tiny doors seven bridges in a row who carries the world? Faith an organ balanced between beams in God’s attic why choose tolerance? Efficiency biased enforcement community resistance how do we rebuild? Simone Schwartz-LombardSimone is a Comparative History of […]
Moroccan Opus: IV. Reverberation (Marrakech)
The city of Marrakech was the main reason why I wanted to create a podcast for my trip. One thing I wanted to capture and convey about my trip was the sounds of Morocco. Marrakech is a medley of noise, whether it be musicians, motorbikes, snake charmers, storytellers, the call to prayers, or the constant […]
Connections
During my month in Tahiti, I was disconnected from my phone, and I have never felt more connected. I built valuable relationships with people while on the trip, who I now view as my second family. I soaked in the beauty of the culture, the earth, the stories that surrounded me. I discovered the thrill […]
Part 3: Distillation
Distillation is the extraction of the essential meaning or most important aspects of something. Transformative experiences can lead to new interactions, discoveries, and forms of truth. Connections by Jag Bains Moroccan Opus: IV. Reverberation (Marrakech) by Emily Aoki Yamashita The Four Pillars at Home and Abroad: A Series of Haikus by Simone Schwartz-Lombard Spirit of Lyon by Joseph Wu mood by Ananya Garg Poppies […]