I’m learning that homesickness exists in various forms. It was a concept I never really understood until sophomore year of college, and even then I was only feeling homesick for Chicago area things, such as Jewel Osco and the ABC7 news. My family I missed on occasion, for sure, but I knew I would be [...]

It’s rather surreal: I have been living in Costa Rica for 24 days now. That’s 3 weeks without a cell phone. And essentially TV, since the televisions in my host family’s house are located in rather inconvenient places for me (my parents’ room and my brother’s ‘lair,’ as I like to call it). On the [...]

So I don’t know why it is I still feel bitter and angry about my life. I don’t know if it’s all the medicine and pills I’ve been taking, the culture shock of having been transplanted to a foreign country or god knows what else. But I’ve just been so damn irritable, no matter how [...]