Get to Know Me (It’s Only Sort-of a Boring List I Promise!)
In exactly six days and ten some-odd hours, I will be hoping on a plane to London, and then another to Accra, Ghana.
That means that for the next seven Wednesdays, you’ll be gifted with a post from yours truly! I apologize in advance for any run-on sentences, oxford commas (cue Vampire Weekend), and simply unreadable paragraphs. Hopefully we only run into a few of my poor common writing practices.
This first post is for you to “get to know me.” So obviously we have to have an icebreaker, and what better icebreaker than two truths and a lie: I am approximately seven feet tall, with strikingly black straight hair and I love a good pair of flip flops. You can find out at the end of this post which one is true, and which two I’ve magically curated from the dark, slightly suspicious, depths of my mind.
If you had told me just two years ago that this is where I would be, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. At that time, I was still a lowly junior in high school, overwhelmed by the idea of college applications and decisions. Well no, scratch that, all I cared about was passing Pre-Calculus. But now I have moved across the country to attend a school in which I have already changed my major once (good job freshman!) and came to the sad conclusion that weather in California really is much nicer than in Massachusetts.
In all seriousness, my upcoming trip to Ghana has been one that’s top three on my bucket list. If I told you the other two, I’d have to pack up and move to a rickety old lake house in the middle of nowhere and eat microwavable macaroni and cheese over a handmade fire. Ghana is a country rich with history and culture that one can find only there. I have also always been keen on education and education policy across the world. In high school, I participated in and ran a club called buildOn, and through this nonprofit I was gifted the chance to travel to Haiti and help a village build their first primary school.
