December 2011
8 posts
more than 12 million people are in forced labor/slavery in the world.
1 million children involved sex trade in Asia.
600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders
50,000 to 100,000 women and children are involved in sex trade in Cambodia. alone.
How I Met Your Mother →
really poignant article about HIMYM.
there's nothing like a bunch of guys singing baby...
November 2011
12 posts
i wish i was baller at writing essays. BAM
great devotion today.
… being justified freely by His grace … —Romans 3:24
The gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the truth that it reveals is not palatable or easy to swallow. There is a certain pride in people that causes them to give and give, but to come and accept a gift is another thing. I will give my life to...
goal: grow a hydroponic vertical plant.
this will be done!
“a 1% rise in women’s literacy is 3 times more likely to reduce deaths in...”
– United Nations
wonderful day!
played squash, jumped in leaves with Tupies, and now off to dinner at the North End!
i hate the internship application process.
October 2011
29 posts
Khmer Language
The Khmer language is a pretty difficult language to learn. It is not a tonal language like Chinese, and there are so many vowels! The language that it is most similar to is French because when one pronounces “b” and “p” it sounds very different from English. I learned one new phrase today since we only had 15 mins of language learning. We mostly went through how...
“We need a fundamental shift in the way we think about international development....”
– Amy B. Smith, founder of MIT’s D-Lab, during the 2011 Wilson Lecture at Wellesley College (via wellesleymag)
I'M GOING TO CAMBODIA!!!
i kind of just want to bang my head on the desk...
3 essays, one presentation, one stomachache, and one headache.
Gadhafi dead? →
Efficiency
I realized that I’m rather efficient when I’m not looking at Facebook! It should be a logical assumption, but after deactivating it, I’m twice as fast in doing work. I just finished editing and writing my essay for D-lab, and now I’m onto my American Lit essay on how the books The Woman Warrior and Housekeeping talk about memory and forgetting. It’s a really...
jeremiah 29:11
yingfong:
to all those who are stressing out or having mental breakdowns:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
- Jeremiah 29:11
Choices...
Should I go to Cambodia, Ghana or Zambia in January????
Wesleyan v. Wellesley →
For someone who is a woman, who attends a liberal arts college, how shallow can you be? I’d pick Wellesley over Wesleyan any day.
i don’t want to go back to Wellesley! Home is too good.
close call.
TFA Teachers →
Interesting article on teacher retention at TFA
Making Scarfs out of Old Shirts →
most awesomest thing everrrrrrrrr ahhh so excited to make this!
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It's a rainymood kind of day
It really surprises me how fast time is passing. It’s already October, and I feel like I just moved into Wellesley yesterday. I even look at pictures from the past two years, and it’s like…did this really happen? has this been so long ago? But even though the passing of time continually hits me hard every so often, I do feel that I have learned so much, so so much these past...
September 2011
25 posts
