Kboogie

Itinerary

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:11:48 -0400

This is a big map of where I will go on my way home to CRochester, NY. I made the blue lines on it to show my little path. Imagine me on a train at night and wandering around in the cities during the day. There are 3 overnight trains: Chisinau to Bucharest, Bucharest to Budapest, and Zagreb to Pesar

RICH AMERICA

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 01:30:18 -0400

I continue to meet people who have no idea that there is poverty in the US. They really have no actual knowledge of poor people living in the US!!! Here’s one comment I got this week: “I will sure try, thank you. The main idea of the whole previous text is that your, American children, the young g

Dissenting Catholic

Sat, 12 May 2007 02:42:00 -0400

The pope said before going to Brazil that those who voted for legalizing abortion in Mexico had excommunicated themselves. I grew up Catholic and even as an adult have taught the catechism class at church or worked with youth group as a member of Corpus Christi parish (before the bishop removed our

Spring Trains

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:06:47 -0400

Some other ex-pats and I have agreed that we all have a similar experience of “not adjusting” to Moldova. I’ll speak for myself: I never got into any routine here. I never got into a schedule of eating, sleeping, waking, bathing, shi… whatever- at any particular time. I tried to keep up my yoga morn

Making your own map

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:08:01 -0400

There is an idea that nations and borders don’t need to exist and that humans have created more problems in the world by adhering to the ideal of nationalism rather than by trying to dissolve borders. On the other hand, degrading the integrity of nations could lead to the loss of individual cultures