Tag: OnTheVerge
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February 19, 2007 09:12 PM EST --
Not all people know how they will react when faced with imminent death. Some might respond with heroic courage. Others, with Zen-like tranquility. I burst out crying.
To my credit, I wasn't the . . .
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February 05, 2007 12:52 PM EST --
The week after I graduated from kindergarten, my parents packed me and my on a 24-hour plane ride to Bali, Indonesia. We were to spend the next three months there while my aging-hippie father took lessons . . .
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March 06, 2007 09:44 PM EST --
It's often been said that the best way to learn a foreign language is to date a native speaker. I wholeheartedly agree, but I would take it one step further: the best way to learn a foreign language . . .
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March 19, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
Try traveling to a country where there are virtually no tourists, no tourist attractions and very little alcohol. You may come to realize that traveling, in and of itself, is slightly absurd. Essentially, . . .
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April 17, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
When I was 18, I discovered that contrary to what my teachers had always led me to believe, I really sucked at speaking Spanish. It had always been my strongest subject: I passed two Spanish AP tests . . .
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April 03, 2007 10:42 AM EDT --
When I was 14, I went to Kenya--kind of. By "kind of," I mean I was physically present in the country for two weeks. But please don't ask me what I learned. The Kenya that I saw looked like . . .
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May 28, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
Now that it is winter, I can't seem to get warm. When indoors, I am always shivering, and I've taken to spending my early evenings in bed under layers of blankets. I stare out the window and smoke . . .
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June 26, 2007 07:09 PM EDT --
(Read Parts I and II here)
My chico (boyfriend) doesn't call that night or the next. I am ready to give up on him altogether, but then on Friday, I answer the phone as I'm headed out the door . . .
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May 01, 2007 11:23 PM EDT --
I spent last Thanksgiving in the Cincinnati ghetto. At least, that's how my boyfriend Rory described his father's neighborhood--where, he warned, I would be the only white person within a one- . . .
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May 14, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
I spent last Thanksgiving in the Cincinnati ghetto. At least, that's how my boyfriend Rory described his father's neighborhood--where, he warned, I would be the only white person within a one- . . .
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June 12, 2007 06:24 PM EDT --
(Read Part I here)
I drink my café con leche and smoke another cigarette. I look out my window at Rio Churuquasqua, which is not a river at all, but a rushing torrent of brown sewage contained . . .
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July 10, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
Read Parts I, II and III here.
Sucking on my cigarrette, I pass through the Plaza de Estudiantes, where teenagers congregate to hang out and brave the cold. Just "hanging out" is a popular . . .
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