Lately, I’ve been sitting in many different places, searching for the “sit spot” that calls to me. From my dorm’s community garden to Geneva’s many public parks, I’ve been wandering and watching the world go by. But my favorite spot so far has been (blasphemously) indoors. My window has this neat metal, shutter-like contraption. These […]
Month: September 2025
Blog Post #1: Le Pavillon Vendôme and a Search for Nature
For my sit spot, I didn’t stray too far from comfortable territory. Le Pavillon Vendôme, a public park, is ten minutes away from Wellesley-in-Aix and five minutes away from my host family’s house. I chose the bench on the left side of the park. a wooden and metal contraption as opposed to its stone counterpart […]
La rambla
Montevideo is intrinsic to la rambla. Every part of its identity is tied to the beach, nestled by the sea. A sea that is actually a river, Río de la Plata, home to such a deep collective memory that it does not matter what it technically is, but rather how it feels. No matter the time of […]
Where am I right now?
I’m really not sure. I sit near a small body of water on the campus of UCD Dublin, my ‘home’ for the next few months, but not yet even familiar. Beyond this, I couldn’t really tell you. Big changes are incredibly disorienting, even when they’re good, and especially when I already wasn’t feeling particularly grounded […]