Thoughts on Statia
I have now been here on Statia for 3 weeks… one strange hurricane week but now 2 weeks of settling into a routine and getting to now the area — the plants and animals and the culture, and what I’m going to be doing here. We’ll start with my routine: I am working at the […]
Hurricane!
Directly after my last cocky entry about how the hurricane didn’t seem that bad I left with the other new volunteers to head back to the garden. By the time we got back, feeling very good about ourselves for having changed a flat tire and gotten unlost several times, we were informed to pack everything […]
Statia!
For those of you who don’t know, I arrived two days ago on St. Eustatius, a tiny island in the Netharlands Antilles in the Carribbean. Just east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgen Islands. I am an intern here with the National Park system, working mostly in the botanical garden. Yesterday I spent most […]
Update
Today I watched on TV as the world turned upside-down. It’s interesting that just this week I’ve been treading a book entitled “Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction”. 1 I figured it would be a nonpartisan and digestible discussion of how capitalism works. But it’s turned out to be an intellectually written academically supported version basically […]
Woo hoo I have a future!
I have officially been accepted, and confirmed… AND even bought AIRLINE tickets (!!!!) for a job this fall! Well, I use the term job loosely. I am going to St. Eustatius which is an island in the dutch antilles which is kinda near the Virgen Islands and Puerto Rico to work as a botanical garden […]
Updata where I’m AT
It’s been a while. Post Chicago I have spent the summer so far at the idylic biostation in Northern Michigan working as a teacher’s assistant for Ecology…. Pellston, USA. As for my job here, between the prof and two TAs we have 21 students. My responsibilities truthfully are very few. The professor prefers to do […]
Back in the USSR…. er USA
Yup. So I’m back in the US of A. Not home exactly, but back in the land of 3 rows in the grocery store worth of electrical cleaning supplies when all I want (and can’t find) is a decent scrub brush and some bar laundry soap, of expensive rent, expensive food, expensive alcohol, and of […]
Vacations with Liza Lou (aka I SAW A CEICILIAN!!!!)
I have been the last week traveling around Costa Rica with my friend Aliza who came to visit. The first part of the trip was in the Talamanca mountain range, near San Isidro. We arrived in San Isidro in the late afternoon and were trying to figure out where we could stay for not a […]
Mastatal Still
So for those of you who are wondering… what the heck happened to Janet? I am still alive and still occastionally on the internet… but really not that much has happened and internet time is few and usually expensive. Besides, english is getting harder and harder to conjugate in (sorry about the gramatical mistakes in […]
Day in the Life
This may end rapidly because I’m using the internet right now accompanied by a rather busy and flighty man, and whenever he says we leave, we LEAVE so I will barely have time to send let along flinish sentances. So here is my perfect ideal daily life right now, just so you all know how […]