Tag: Senegal

Post author By Jillian
Post date October 30, 2009
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Every day on the bus, as I scan through the feeds coming through my RSS reader, I save the best folder for last. I flip first through folders dubbed “anthroblogging” and “arabists,” ones for my Global Voices readings, and ones for work. Once I’ve read, or at least marked all as read, I come to […]

Tags Global Voices, Global Voices Online, GV, Meknes, Morocco, sameness, Senegal, similarities, the lucky cigarette, Travel, xenophilia

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I remember a time when the world felt big. Where, as an angsty nineteen year old, I told a friend over cigarettes and copious amounts of coffee that the better alternative to suicide was to run away, lose yourself in a part of the world that you’d never even imagined. I remembered that conversation three […]

Tags Amsterdam, angst, Beirut, Czech Republic, damascus, depression, jaded, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, nostalgia, Prague, Senegal, syria, Travel