I don’t hope for life as a constant, but I hope for life as the essence of grappling and spiraling with new experiences. First up, the PC partnership project is fully funded! Thank you hugely and greatly for your support and donations towards a project of limitless possibilities. Very Very soon, we’ll get the project [...]
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I packed my bags, not really knowing where I’d end up for New Year’s. The original plan was to go to Hungary, but after a series of unplanned events took place, the possibilities became many – each with their own reality. In the end, I’m back in the States for a short stretch and then [...]
It might be that I declare November as the worst possible month of the year. In reality, November is just the lull from a series of activities, waiting for the next projects to happen, and gathering wits for the next semester. Nevertheless, cheers to December beginning! Of the most crucial, is the final major project [...]
It is not very often that I have a chance to travel with someone. As a child, we would mostly take roadtrips to Houston, once a trip to the Davis Mountains (my favorite part to Texas), once a trip to places, where unbeknown to us, blue code laws were in still in effect – so [...]
First up: Please click here and donate as soon as you can. We need to raise $911 for a technological project – training teachers and students in filming and editing that will be used in the classroom, and in building an online media library. It’s the perfect project, but has to be funded as soon [...]
Passively watching the half-built/graffitied buildings that follow me home, I can’t help but feel that it actually is home – that in many ways, Ukraine is more my home than America is. I know that’s a complicated reality, and it’s not fully true. After PC, I’ll long for Ukraine in ways I’ve yet to long [...]
The weekend started off with a fort, which is better than a bang. I’m really honored to live in a place where the people, who come to work on a project, feel like home-space – of absolute possibility and coordinating of homespace. It never ceases to amaze me that Rube Goldberg may have been elaborately [...]
2005-2008 When I graduated from high school, I was completely burnt out. The last semester to senior year was a conflicting set of realities: my vision of a valedictorian completely conflicted with my reality there were days that began at 6am with the swim team and ended at 1am with softball games / completing AP [...]
Fellow Philosophy major (non-analytic) here from group 42. I enjoyed reading your post, it's great that you can discuss philosophy during your service. That's something I also hope to do.
Back in the day, circa 2007, when facebook was only for college students, every few months or so, I’d trek my way to childhood-land, and would inevitably be asked by a family-friend what I was studying. I then would translate my Evergreen education^* into the response, “I’m studying philosophy.” I could very nearly predict the [...]
Now that I’m more or less recovered from the huge wave that MASCOT is, and the partial shock that I’ll be back in America by the time MASCOT 2012 happens, I can now sufficiently work towards the now reality: Teaching. This is huge and awesome. The teachers I’m working with are amazing and wondering. PLUS! [...]
Thank you for all of your support of the MASCOT 2011 Camp. It’s unfathomable that the camp is over. I wish in this post that I could convey to you the atmosphere of our staff and campers…of the strong curriculum that was developed…of the discussions that were held on creating an inclusive society…of one of [...]
At a recent event for volunteers to refresh technical language skills, I ended up having to filter the same question and answering why I chose to extend. My director asked how I was enjoying my extension, and my subconscious reaction was to spread a huge grin across my face. It did hit me though, that [...]
It never ceases to surprise me how my logic always gets surprised by my emotions, and alternately, how my emotions are confounded by logic. In some ways, part of the growth and way of being here, has been all about coming to terms with both of those. After two years, I’m not sure there’s ever [...]
Around every project, the thought comes, “This is probably the best moment yet.” At first, it was the teacher seminars where, with my Ukrainian food friend/teacher, we created a word document and internet project. Then, it was MASCOT 2010, which was an absolute camp experience and spiraled the following two things (among many more): Sound [...]
About 7 years ago, I was nominated and selected for a two-week long summer program called the Wartburg Youth Leadership School. My home community sponsored me, as the school was about $500 and the plane ticket was another $300, and to them, I’m indebted to them as they provided the possibility for what has so [...]
The reason for the mosaic: to build on what is already sustainable and the idea is to work toward reshaping our discourse of HIV into something integrated – where everyone can be included in society. After months upon months of waiting to implement the last part to the HIV/AIDS project in my town, the time [...]
The event that made the decision to extend is in immediate need of your donations. To donate, click HERE. For the camp’s website, here’s that link. A brief summary: MASCOT Camp is designed to inspire [...]
(Third year’s the charm!) Happy Paska! Хритос Воскрес! It’s been a day or so of fragmented sleep and it’s my other brother’s Birthday! Recently. a few conversations with students have been questions of “What do you like about Ukraine” and “What will you remember about us?” And I don’t know how to fully explain to [...]
The Current: Mosaic project, EuroClub (ie Creativity Club) – we got first place in our city!, Dorm Remodeling, MASCOT Camp, Young Kid camp, Daily Cultivation of Self Project (ie reading a book about creativity). I’ve hit my limits of what I know – meaning I’m incredibly challenged and living into a world where I really don’t know [...]
Yeah! And WOW… and quite a bit of Whoa. April 1st is a conundrum. It is my niece’s 12th Birthday. It also marks the official date of living in Ukraine for two years, and my launch into a third year. Two years is a long time to be gone, and three years will be even [...]
Right now, it’s my first real Saturday morning in a while that is not involved in traveling, or other events. It means that this morning will be spent organizing my space, my constructs, and developing some project implementation strategies – in other words, do the work that has been cumulating over the last few months. [...]
The blog’s writer is currently immersed in ideas, planning, and establishing new constructs by engaging in many meetings of the old and new – the past and present. The current week is a week of waiting for permission, and the following week will be one of a delve into what started this all. A sufficient [...]
Today is a day of oscillation….meaning, it’s a day of switching between Mumford & Sons, Macy Gray, and La Roux….meaning, it’s very sunny both outside and inside….meaning, I’ve got things going in every which direction….meaning, I should be doing things like organizing, writing documents, researching and other things….meaning, instead I’ve come across old foretelling, and [...]
I'm proud of you!!!! Thank-you for showing people on the other side of the world that we care!
Personally, and deeply, I want to say a great and amazing thank you. Really deeply thank you for putting your money to something so far removed from what is known, and into a really great and wonderful project/possibility. Deeply and wonderfully, thank you for making it possible. I just told my college that the project [...]
Bluntly and honestly, we need your money. The project can’t happen without your donation, and it’s so important on many different levels that it happens. Please please help us do something radical. All it takes is clicking on this site and donating. What it’s all about: this opportunity is really incredibly amazing. For Ukrainians living [...]
The excuse for lack of updating the blog is that I’ve been busy. The reality is that I’ve been so introspective lately, that to write here, would not only be the link between self and other, but force the bridge between the self and the self’s other and right now, that’s complicated territory. So much [...]
Circumstances, conversations and opportunities have provided, permitted and permeated the space to reflect, and understand how to tell the why of what. “It’s just different. Not better or worse. Just Different.” When asked what is better – America or Ukraine, this has been my response, but I understand it now in a much deeper way [...]
The writer of this blog is currently under construction. Hitherto discussed projects are taking their wings and flying. A satisfactory post will be made in about 2 weeks. Until then, please stand by, and donate to the accessible resourceful project for students living with mobility impairments.
It is in part from my fascination with Foucault – that it’s quite impossible to create a completely different world. What we know, we know and so we use it, question it, shift it, create new subtleties and provide the space for that new understanding – that new moment. But to create a new world [...]
Today was one of those days….not one of those days, but one of those days. Today, we finally started our HIV training project. My day started at 4am, with me staring at my phone, not understanding what I was holding or why it was making noise. I stared at it for a long while, until [...]
The Last three posts have only been about donating to the special needs project https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.donors.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=343-181, and so it’s time to say something more. However, what I will say about donations is this: If you donate within the next two weeks, your donation is being matched by my fly friend. (see the post ‘It’s sleeve-ossible’ )..also, when [...]
Waiting and waiting. This weeks’s been alot of waiting. I got pretty sick Monday, and am pretty stubborn about taking medicine, so I didn’t. You should have heard me. I secretly enjoy having a ridiculously sore throat, because then I get to play with pitches that I usually am unable to hit. I’ve also been [...]
Once upon a project, I had a pet sleeping bag, who lived with a hot tea. There were a few ideas stuck up in my long-sleeve shirt. I forgot to hold onto the end of the shirt closest to my hands before putting on my coat. Now, I’ve got to wriggle the sleeves and ideas [...]
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Alright, I’ve been doing some thinking, and here’s what I’ve got… Donating is so much more interesting when you get something out of it. So, here’s the deal, I’ve got a skill, and maybe you’ve got some money. My site has a partnership project open that is in need of some donations. It’s a pretty [...]
I’m learning how to make things less heavy. I’m learning how to nike slogan life. I’m learning how to do those steady steps that erase procrastination out of me. Ukraine hit her first cold snap, and oh woman is it cold. At first I refused to acknowledge that the heater needed to be turned on [...]
This past week was pretty melancholy. I think it had a bit to do with the full moon, a bit to do with my own things, and a bit to do with where I am in being here. Things are finally getting much clearer, and active…I’m learning how to be in community – in communication [...]
The previous post was excruciatingly long. I’ll try, in the future, to stay on topic of living abroad and to keep a manageable length. Here are the highlights, or perhaps better described, lessons of the recent weeks: -Presence is important: It’s amazing what can happen when people are present to each other, and how that [...]
Things, ideas, projects, and so much more are developing, cooking, growing, and are just plain wonderful. In a way, this is odd – because, in a way, at the surface, ‘what is’ is all these different fields of descriptions and challenges and intensities – ‘what is’ is so varied that perhaps it is odd to say, [...]
I took a program called “India, Dance of Politics, Politics of Dance” my first quarter at Evergreen and somehow, amazingly, established some honorable friendships. India’s on my mind because currently my Ben friend lives and works there, and my Alya friend has jumped on a plane heading there. If all works out, two of my [...]
Just a quick reminder: One of the main goals/projects of this year is to improve the educational opportunities for students with special needs, which then will lead to occupational changes for students. what the projects entails: 1) to remodel the college’s dormitory to be wheelchair accessible 2) to provide training and develop resources for teachers [...]
Happy Birthday!!!!
I lost an ipod, did you find one? If you did just keep it. I'm sorry to hear about your flight plan change, you should have called!
SJW
Really enjoyed this entry, Ms. Badge. Appreciate your insight, amazed by you positive attitude, and constantly in awe of your reflection on life's happenings. Cheers to you, love.
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