Killer Cars

This post’s title crept into my head once and I have been thinking about how true it is ever since.
A little heat off my chest before I go on Christmas vacation and regret all the bad things I said. I’m not going to sugarcoat any of the following. My 3rd month at site (Month […]

Typical conversation had with a Cape Verdean stranger:
“So where do you live in America?”
“You ever heard of Providence?”
“Uhh…nao”
Sigh…”My house is an hour from Boston”
“So you live in Boston!”
“…yeah..”
“Do you know _______”, (fill in blank with name of Cape Verdean relative)
“Sorry, no.”
“Why not?”
“Well Boston is a big big city”. A statement I would never say in […]

When I lived with my homestay family in Sao Domingos, I complained that “Sao Dao” is in the middle of nowhere because it didn’t have a functioning internet café and actually only has one road. But we took a field trip to see the town’s one (and only) water pump, and soon realized my standards […]

I’ve been away from the blog for a little while and am now mentioning certain things from the past 2 weeks. Last week, while everybody back home in New England braved cold temperatures in the snow to celebrate Thanksgiving, I woke up and slapped sunscreen on myself like it was any other day. I didn’t […]

In college, I took many pictures of typical scenery. A familiar friend giving the thumbs up, shots of beruit action throwing down, and my occasional voyeuristic shots of my young drunken friends. Most of the shots were pretty straightforward and you were either there or you weren’t. Hence, a lot of the shots carry no […]