"Why are you here?"
“I’m here to practice French.”
“What made you decide on Senegal?”
“I like international development, I didn’t want to go to Europe.”
I’d had the same conversation...
It is by no coincidence that the Spanish words for foreigner, extranjero, and strange, extraño, share linguistic roots. The foreign, in the many and various forms it takes, always seems a little weird...
I am not fond of regret. Vigilantly, I avoid it, and with less than a week until the sun sets on my time in Japan, again posed to me is the perennial question: Have I done enough?
Practicality has overtaken...
Prior to my arrival in Japan, I had been promised a great shattering of expectations. To be sure, this life abroad has been akin to a subscription to some new jolt every day, routinely rearranging my jigsaw...
