A Maine Summer Vacation
Earlier this summer, my extended family decided to get together at Sebago Lake in Maine for a reunion....
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Just A Place In China
A blue tooth brush, a cartoon about a boy, and a little white dog; that’s the extent of the memories, I have of my early life in China. I left when I was 3 years old and going back, I had fancy...
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The Emerald Cortez
The Rocky Mountains surrounded me as sentinels. Their grasp was a difficult thing to escape, stretching so far up and out. But escape I did, to a land that, being from a town sheltered in the mountains...
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Exhilarating Adventures in an Unknown Country
After the 13 hour flight, I was ready to get off the plane. In addition to the long plane ride, I did not understand anyone. I was so scared that I was going to get...
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Fashion in NYC
From July 8th-14th, I spent a week away in New York City for a summer fashion program at LIM college (www.limcollege.edu). It was my first week away on my own and it taught me a tremendous amount...
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Spanish Paradise
During the spring of 2012, I had the magnificent opportunity of traveling to Costa Rica with 14 other third and fourth year Spanish students from my school. We stayed for eight days in the beautiful...
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Eyes Wide Open
For 14 hours straight, I flew over an ocean with my family in tow. In June 2010, we visited my uncle in China. My Uncle Mike has been working and living in China since around 2000,...
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A Time to Reunite
When I was less than a year old, my father decided to leave my mom and I with any form communication between him and us. Twelve years later, my mom and I learned from my father's sister that...
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