Chocolate wrapper countries

Countries always defy your expectations. No matter what you expect, how many people you talk to or pictures you look at. It is always different. More than you imagined. Impossible to put into words. It pulls your heart strings and impresses itself upon you in ways pictures, stories and documentaries never could. As it opens…

Arc de Triomphe

All for glory All for shame Men and horses fight in vain Oh, broken humanity A monument to victory Is really a place to say sorry That others had to die To get what we desired Fight for peace, fight for freedom By starting a war and then Killing our own men Along with our…

Not goodbye forever

Goodbye Grenoble. I cannot express, not in my broken French or fluent English, how thankful I am to the family I have stayed with in Grenoble. Or how much I love them. It has been an honour to live with them, be part of their normal life and get to know them. They have continually…

All naturale

The last few days have been outdoors and wonderful! The family owns a plot of land 30 minutes from the house where they have flourishing vegetables. Last Thursday, while her parents chopped wood and harvested, I took care of the one year old, making food from the many ingredients a leaf could pretend to be…