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Discover more about your world by living in it. Learn foreign languages through immersive study. Master new skills by going to where they do them best. Go to where you feel uncomfortable, until strangers become your friends and you begin to feel at home.
What happens to plastics we buy? This is where it goes: trash fires, beaches, and dumps around the world. This is the “Trash Outside the Frame”.… Read More
2020 – the year of “Going Home” to Korea and Central Asia. And maybe… regional Australia.… Read More
How France and I evolved in the 16 years since we crossed paths — not in the same directions.… Read More
The greatest gift we can give to strangers is acceptance.… Read More
Learning Swahili in 60 days – our 60 day recap, plus how we learned Swahili in two months, what resources we used to learn Swahili, and what we’d do differently.… Read More
Judging another country’s English as not perfect is at best ignorant, and at worst, racist.… Read More
I’m called lao-wai in China. We’re called agaanib in Egypt and wazungu in East Africa. But even those we’re those things, we’re other people, and we’re ourselves.… Read More
Did you know that to say “7am” in Zanzibar, you say “one o’clock”? That’s called Swahili Time. It’s just one of many things we learned about living in Zanzibar.… Read More
The complicated politics of nation, cultural identity and religion in Israel, Palestine or whatever you want to call “this part of the world”.… Read More
Hebrew is thousands of years old and yet has evolved into a language that many use as their primary — or only — language. This is its story.… Read More