My story, briefly: I grew up in a very frugal family as a missionary kid. I went to college and tried to be frugal there, too, as much as a college student can. I rarely ate out, and if I was traveling I tried to skip meals to save money. Then I got my first job and moved into my own apartment. I suddenly had money, and before long I was in a nice cycle of buying things. I must…
I know, I know – I’m not supposed to worry. I can’t help myself. :-/ Here are some of the thoughts on my mind about the future day when we have kids: I’m scared about having really difficult pregnancies – in bed, sick the entire time. I worry about morning sickness in general. I’m scared of having a miscarriage. I’m absolutely terrified of labor and giving birth. I have too many au natural friends. I’m scared that I’m not going…
As I was packing today, I came across this story I wrote for my college freshman English class. It is a true story I wrote a few months after leaving Peru and moving to the States for college. I think it conveys a lot of what I was thinking and feeling at the time, and can be applied to any time someone leaves a familiar place. The date marked on it is “September 17, 2001”, which is rather ironic because…
I didn’t get any submissions for the Carnival this week, so I decided to just put my post below. Next week’s topic is “The Beauty of Learning”, and hosted by Bethany at A Picturesque Life. Thanks for reading! ————————— This week I heard some sad news. The Wycliffe office here in Atlanta, where I lived for a year when I was a child, is closing. A piece of my heritage, lost. That made me sad. My mom also told me…
I enjoy discussion around here, so I think I’m going to make more of an effort to have more of those kinds of posts. (I enjoyed the one we had a while back.) How do you think we should react to cultures around us? If you moved to another country, do we have any obligation to that country (the “host country”) at all? Should you learn the language? Eat the food? Celebrate your host country’s holidays? How about your home…