BlogAbroad: The First Season
Emma
Program: Living Routes
Study Abroad Destination: Senegal
Three things that scare me:
- Blood. Actually, not so much blood as veins. Damien Hirst installations with the severed cows and subsequent flies-no fun.
- Willful ignorance.
- Extremism.
Three people who make me laugh:
- My friends.
- Jon Stewart.
- David Sedaris.
Three things I love:
- My family-which includes my old man kitty, Boots.
- Jefferson, NH.
- Chocolate.
Three things I hate:
Without getting all radical and political, I can't really think of anything that I unilaterally hate. Except getting blood drawn. And injustice. There are two.
Three things I don't understand:
- Calculus and all pertinent fields of study.
- What happened in Ohio. And Florida.
- Chess.
Three things on my desk:
- A teetering tower of postcards that have accumulated over the years, a result of both friends' adventures and my own.
- A gargantuan Art History textbook.
- Some Christmas cards I never mailed.
Three things I'm doing right now:
- -Boiling water for tea.
- Listening to the Youssou N'Dour CD I just purchased.
- Considering my dinner prospects.
Three things I want to do before I die:
- Save the world or, at the very least, travel as much of the world as possible.
- Make the perfect soufflé.
- Gain proficiency in some language other than English.
Three ways to describe my personality:
- An outspoken critic of the mass media who could not live without US Weekly, People, Star, The National Enquirer and other such fine publications.
- A night at The It Club with Hollywood's A-list or dinner with a Times journalist covering Iraq? Dinner with the journalist.
- As I typically carry on three simultaneous conversations in my head at any given moment, I have been known to both talk to myself and blurt out non-sequiturs when engaged in actual conversations with actual physical beings. Astrology savvy friends say it's a Libra thing.
Three things I can't do:
- Play chess.
- Consciously make eye contact without blushing.
- Read music.
