Not too much has been going on around these parts. Midterms are currently happening, so I haven’t taught this past week and will not next...

While January felt like the longest month ever, February has flown by, and I’m really enjoying service as I get more into the swing of...

Buckle up, folks. This is a wordy one. ‘For if one were to offer men to choose out of all the customs in the world such as seemed to them...

A lot of people have been asking me how school has been so far, and have a lot of questions about my school specifically. Since the next...

I’ve been called Popeye three times here so far. I have a small, quarter-sized tattoo of an anchor on the inside of my left heel. I got...

Peace Corps service is essentially a long accumulation of both funny and awkward encounters between myself and Indonesians, especially...

Whenever a person moves to another country, they are bound to experience a wave of emotions and feelings about what they’re doing there,...

If you asked me before coming to Indonesia if I’d be posting about bathrooms on more than one occasion, I’d have laughed in your face and...

2019 has been a tough one so far. On New Year’s Day, I joined my site-mate, Chelsea, and her family to a cave in our county. It was...

Hello All! I hope you all enjoyed Christmas. I spent my birthday and Christmas in Pacitan, East Java. The town of Pacitan is tucked away...

Five days before swear-in, I sat down with my CD, or Country Director, for one final interview: a reflection on the last 10 weeks. “Tell...

Swear-in was last week, on December 10th, and with the busyness of training, packing, and saying goodbye to friends and host family, I’m...

Eight more days of Pre-Service Training. Eight more days. Eight more days??? Time is an interesting thing here in Indonesia. One moment,...

Site Visit! PST follows a organized schedule, and our days are jam-packed. On “hub days”, every Friday, we meet back with all 57...

The little room. Kamar kecil. There's the toilet, several inches from the ground, and there's that big basin of water, usually overflown...

One of the number one things I was concerned about, if not THE number one thing, was living with a host family. From my last two...

(written last week) Selamat siang! I am safe and sound in Indonesia, specifically in Kediri, East Java. This is where I’ll be living for...

This is the question I’ve been getting the most during the past several weeks. My answer is always the same, though. I always say no, and...

The process of packing has probably been my favorite thing so far. With research from the Peace Corps website, from blogs of past PCVs,...

I’m back to the blogging world! After a two year hiatus since my last long-term adventure in Germany, I’m ready to start a new chapter....