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11/15/2017

It's always so refreshing to see both of my sisters. I'm back in Vermont for the winter after au-pairing in France for 4 months. I'll be here until sometime in February before heading out again. I've been looking at the possibility of moving to Brazil, moving to Jordan, or moving back to Ecuador. I'm excited to see what the winter holds in store for me.

View from a run in Saint Johnsbury up Overcliff Av.

Gentrification in Lisbon

11/2/2017

During my walk in Lisbon's Alfama district today, I saw a sobering sign that said "No to Gentrification" in Portuguese. Gentrification is a process of "renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents... a common and controversial topic in politics and in urban planning." Let's dissect why I stopped to look at the sign longer than I stopped to look at the monument nearby, shall we?

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My 3 month internship in Kenya where I had some interesting culture shocks, traveled, and saw beautiful things like Naivasha's Hell's Gate National Park, Nairobi National Park, and Mt. Longonot
Moving to Montreal to start my MA program
Going to Stockholm, Sweden
Working at Kingdom Trails and mountain biking on the daily
Being a ski instructor in Vermont
A glimpse at what I did in France for 2 months
2 intensive French classes in Sherbrooke, Canada and Grenoble respectively
my month-long visit back to Ecuador (where I climbed a snowy volcano, performed a rap, ate bomb ice cream, and soaked up the sun with blue-footed boobies)
an impromptu trip to Toronto to see the activist Vandana Shiva, and to Quebec to see my lovely grandmother
& adventures in Vermont last summer (including an owl visitor and a hike)

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