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Photos of the City

November 16, 2012

My Mom

November 10, 2012

This week I’ve been neglecting my hot little kitchen because… she came! My mom came! To the Philippines! To spend time with me and Bjork at the school, the shelter, and the beach.

It was amazing.

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The Dogs

October 29, 2012

dogs

This post could get raw, weepy, and contemplative reeeeal quick. Consider yourselves warned.

I’m losing a mind battle with the dogs. I tried to focus myself to write about something else, like the delicious cookies that I’ve been living on for the last two weeks, or how we had a typhoon day at school, or how I got my first haircut here, but all I can think about is how I never ever want to see, touch, and especially HEAR a dog ever again.

So I guess I’m gonna tell you about the dogs now.

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It’s the Little Things

October 19, 2012

Like finding a gym. A real, treadmill-elliptical-yoga-room gym.

Or getting a table.

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This Is Why

September 26, 2012

Babies are the new thing.

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Places, Etc.

September 14, 2012

Let’s have a cupcake together.

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Thoughts at Three Months {his and hers}

September 11, 2012

I can hardly believe it. It’s been three months since we boarded a plane in little old Minnesota, sprinted through the Chicago airport with overpacked carry-ons to catch our flight to Seoul, and finally bopped on over to our temporary home for a year: Cebu, Philippines.

Three months. That’s roughly 90 days, or 2,160 hours, or 532,403,851 dog barks, depending on how much sleep I’ve gotten.

That’s one fourth of a year.

That’s crazy.

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What I Do Here

September 3, 2012

On Mondays, I ride up to school on the back of moped.

I love it.

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Beachy

August 21, 2012

This weekend we went to the beach and it became my favorite place in the world.

I’ve kind of been overloading you with pictures of kids, snack foods, and dirty crowded streets, but I am dying to show you some more pictures of another side of the Philippines: the beach.

Because it’s really, really beautiful.

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Babies and Things

August 20, 2012

Happy Monday!

Before you throw a pie at my face, there are three reasons this Monday actually is happy. Number one: baby time. It may appear that baby time is little happier for me than it is for cutie pie, but in our hearts we love each other. L-O-V-E.

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Girls at the Mall

August 13, 2012

Hi there! How was your weekend?

Mine was good, as you might have noticed by the jumbo cheeseburger and malt pictured above.

The main event of the weekend was Bjork and my – mine’s? I’s? – first ever outing with kids from the orphanage. We decided that in honor of my students filling up their sticker charts (oh, stickers, you powerful little things), we would hit up the big mall in Cebu for some games and food. Might I add that my students are six preteen girls. Mall. Preteen. Girls.

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Life This Week

August 9, 2012

This week the sun’s been shining.

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New Routines: Part 2

July 30, 2012

So this is the point in my life where I share my crazy new habits on the internet.

Again.

Routine #5: This cereal. All the time, every day. Period. It has real (like, REAL) chocolate inside each little piece and a funny dog on the box. So basically it’s a dream come true.

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New Routines: Part 1

July 23, 2012

There’s something you should know about me.

I love routine and structure and rules and schedules and color-coded charts and all things safe and un-risky. But then I moved to the Philippines. Ha ha.

Things in the Philippines operate freely and loosely. Internet isn’t working? Hey, we’ll be there next month to check it out. Grab a mango lassi and chill out, girl.

This relaxed mentality is wonderful in theory, right? But in reality my type A brain would shrivel up and die if I didn’t have my life anchored around a few predictable routines.

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