So, I'm freakin out.
I leave portland in a week and a half. This is my home! I can't leave! stupid. I'm going through this thing where I keep getting all frustrated when friends are too tired, or forget, or busy to hang out... i know i can't expect them to drop everything and hang out with me, but I know after drive away Oct. 3, I'll never see 90% of them again, which is really sad, because the friends i have up here have become my family. They're the people i live with, and have thanksgiving and new year's with... but the difference is friends are a lot easier to lose track of than family. This whole life i have will be gone when i come back, if i do come back to portland. It's really scary, and depressing.
and people keep calling me noble and brave shit like that, which makes me uncomfortable, because i'm not. If i really wanted to help people or save the world or whatever, i wouldn't do it by joining the peace corps. I mean, i do want to help people, but i have no illusions about being successful. I don't know how i'll even be able to teach, because not only will i have to teach in another language, i have to teach science in another language. Science already has so much specific vocab as to shut a lot of people out, and make it scary to learn, and i know that vocab. I won't even know what i'm talking about over there. and as for the brave thing.... I don't feel brave, i feel more like crazy and i don't know. something else. stupid?
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Blagga Whut?!
In honor of the awesomeness of xkcd.com, i am henceforth calling this my blag.
T- 7 weeks and counting until i travel to somewhere for a couple days, and then to lesotho, africa... yeah, i had to wikipedia it, too. One site called it "the switzerland of africa", which i find awesomely silly. I'm going to live in a place where it snows! and yes, i of all people manage to do this by going to africa. that will be crazy though... snow. and i will get my very own hovel! i really want to get a chicken. i will be afraid of it, because birds freak me out, but i really like chickens, in a stand back no-touchy sort of way. so this chicken will help me get over my fear of birds plucking out my eyeballs and it will also give me fresh eggs! maybe i will name it "destiny" or "mutual understanding" or something.
fun fact #1: lesotho has both one of the highest aids rates, and one of the highest literacy rates out of any country in africa. although it is roughly the size of vermont, so maybe that is influencing these statistics...
fun fact#2: lesotho is like a little island in the middle of south africa, it's completely surrounded. it's like they seceded from the union and shit. in fact, they did.
fun fact #3: lesotho has the "highest low point" out of any country in the world. the lowest point is like 4500ft above sea level. There don't seem to be many trees there, judging from pictures, which is weird.
T- 7 weeks and counting until i travel to somewhere for a couple days, and then to lesotho, africa... yeah, i had to wikipedia it, too. One site called it "the switzerland of africa", which i find awesomely silly. I'm going to live in a place where it snows! and yes, i of all people manage to do this by going to africa. that will be crazy though... snow. and i will get my very own hovel! i really want to get a chicken. i will be afraid of it, because birds freak me out, but i really like chickens, in a stand back no-touchy sort of way. so this chicken will help me get over my fear of birds plucking out my eyeballs and it will also give me fresh eggs! maybe i will name it "destiny" or "mutual understanding" or something.
fun fact #1: lesotho has both one of the highest aids rates, and one of the highest literacy rates out of any country in africa. although it is roughly the size of vermont, so maybe that is influencing these statistics...
fun fact#2: lesotho is like a little island in the middle of south africa, it's completely surrounded. it's like they seceded from the union and shit. in fact, they did.
fun fact #3: lesotho has the "highest low point" out of any country in the world. the lowest point is like 4500ft above sea level. There don't seem to be many trees there, judging from pictures, which is weird.
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