Tag: adventure

letter to my family: December 23

Letter to my family...

Hey guys! How are things going there? Things here are okay. Last night I met a few of Ditte’s friends who are also illustrators and were pretty cool. They both seemed to be pretty successful or at least know what they are doing. I hope to meet them again later. We also saw Life of Pi but the guy pronounced it Life of Pee when we gave him our tickets. That was the most enjoyable part of the movie. It was so bad that I got physically sick overnight and now I have a cold. Seriously though, if I wasn’t with people I had just met I would’ve walked out and stared at a brick wall for two hours instead. Hopefully I’ll feel better by the end of today. I really did somehow get sick. Last night I felt so…

the disease

Lately I finds two different currents running through my body, varying in ratio, intensity and velocity. Time speeds up, slows down. Temperature inconsistent with atmosphere. Positivity is suffocated by a hopelessness incongruous to my situation. Hopelessness is speared by a jolting idea from which my mind moves too quickly to complete. I’m not happy where I am. I’m not comfortable but it’s not a productive discomfort. As I search for jobs without luck I question…

journey to Pai

I just decided last-minute to get on a bus and go to Pai, a town known for being super chilled out and populated with a bunch of hippies. When I see it like that it’s hard to imagine why I’d…

quick Myanmar visa run

A dark, rainy day. It feels like I should be comfortably nestled in a library, sitting cross-legged on the floor, immersed in a book. A day that reminds me of childhood. But I’m nowhere near a library—I’m in a mini-van…