The end of the semester has approached incredibly quickly, and the end of my first year at Earlham. It seems impossible to me that it has been so long since my first days and experiences on this campus. I have been thinking hard about this trip and what it means to me. I'm not sure that I can possibly know what this trip means to me yet, or how much it will mean to me, but I am hoping to answer that question within the next two weeks or so. I am preparing for a...

So, 30 days and counting until the big summer starts!!! I am really excited, getting a little nervous, about a lot of things, most of them not related to me. I am worried about certain members in my travel group participating in ethnocentrism on the trip and exoticism. During the presentations of what each member of our group hopes to do a study of while in Senegal, some members of the group gave me that impression. Right now, my concern is that some members of ...