Happy. Happy. Happy.
I am here and it is lovely. Oh, how I have missed this place so much. If one was to somehow have a second home, Uganda would be mine. Coming in from the airport, Kampala seemed both busier and more polluted. And yet, everything was still the same – the precariously perched tomatoes on the side...
One very odd note stuck on my door
The other day I arrived home and found this note on my front door. In fact, I found three identical notes on all the doors surrounding my apartment. My roomate and I are the only foreigners in the building and it seems there is a need for our services. We laughed pretty hard. They big...
A beautiful new Canadian passport
Goodbye dear passport. The man at the passport office laughed when I showed up and handed him my passport, with 2 years validity still left on it, but almost completely full of stamps. “This rarely happens,” he said, laughing, and quickly agreed to issue me a new passport. Hello to a new, beautiful spotlessly clean...
On reverse culture shock
*blink blink* As I stood in front of the peanut butter aisle, I knew I had not contemplated something. That something was reverse culture shock. Upon my return to Canada it has continued to pop up in strange pockets. It’s something I thought I remembered – after returning from a year abroad as an exchange...
Some pictures from Dubai. Finally.
Here are some Dubai photos. This is my foot after a construction accident. I stepped into what looked like a firm patch of ground. It was, in fact, a foot sucking pile of cement dirt. I lost my sandal and frantically stood there like a stork for several seconds. Each time I put my foot...
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