Scratch whatever I said about this place being claustrophobic. I have THIS.
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Hi! my name is Thea. i make a mean pancake, i can't do accents but i will unwittingly start to mirror speech patterns back to you, i love wordplay, i collect postcards and fortunes from fortune cookies, and i am awake to experiences, just hoping to sponge up as much as i can.
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- America!
- Goodbye, Europe!
- Word of the Week!
- I’m in IRELAND!
- Word of the Week!
- Word of the Week!
- 3 weeks left!
- Maurice joins the wild things
- Word of the Week !
- Grammar and all that is holy
- Word of the Week!
- On a scale from one to snotmonster…
- Word of the Week!
- Cackle Cackle
- Word of the Week!
- Slang of the Week!
- Word of the Week!
- Word of the Week!
- A Bedtime Story
- The Hipster Diet
- The Art of the Gourmandise: eating (well) in France
- Word of the Week !
- “I’m Actually a Wookie!” The Advantages of Multilingualism
- Word of the Week!
- Is fearr Gaeilge briste, na Bearla cliste
- Have some π!
- Word of the Week !
- Word of the Week!
- Word of the Week!
- Gentlemen prefer baabs: Bahia Palace
- BREAK!
- SACRE BLEU! an essay contest!
- Word of the Week!
- Romance à la Renaissance
- Addendum to Valentines for the apathetic
- Valentines for the apathetic: blubber not!
- Word of the Week!
- Can’t Sleep
- Word of the Week!
- Excuse My French
- The Chin Life
- The Snow in Turin Falls Mainly On the Alps
- Cena a Torino (Dinner in Turin)
- All Roads Do Not Lead to Rome
- Shop til you…
- When all else fails, post sunset pictures
- Menton
- I’m Back!
- Gimmicks…with a side of Cheese
- Name That Masterpiece!
- Happy Birthday, Oma A!
- Linguistiks Kittehz!
- (insert indiscernible German here)
- Godt Nytår y’all!
- Goodbye, 2011!
- On the Road Again: Denmark
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Finding Zen in Disneyland
- The Pimple on the Face of Paris
- Leftovers à la Française
- Joyeux Noël: a country feast
- Merry Decemberween!
- Stumbling in the City of Light
- Why is everybody naked? and other pertinent questions
- The Pantheon
- Goats & Gears
- FRANCE!
- Nice to Paris: final leg of the trip!
- Milan to Nice by train
- Eine Gute Fahrt: Cairo-Frankfurt-Milan
- Goodbye, Egypt!
- The Last Day
- Happy Birthday, Dad!
- “Sorry, the mountain closes at 5 today”: Siwa contradictions
- A Desert Adventure: Siwa Day 2
- Siwa Geology Fun Times!
- A Desert Adventure: Siwa Day 1
- The Last Weekend: Siwa
- Video Essay: more getting around in Egypt
- Video Essay: getting around in Egypt
- A Haircut and A Lesson
- A Day in the Life: Going Whole Sea Bass
- Eighteen, Nineteen, Penis-y, Twenty-One…
- Elections!(!!!!!!!!!)
- When life hands you political unrest, make green bean casserole
- Continuing Protests: Videos
- Thanksgiving
- Continuing Protests: Update 11/23
- Continuing Protests: Update 11/22
- Continuing Protests: Update 11/21
- Addendum to Continuing Protests: 11/20
- Continuing Protests: Update 11/20
- The Alexandria Blues
- Local Sounds
- Only In Egypt
- Junk Food
- RAIN (finally!)
- Day 6: Karnak (50TH POST!)
- Day 5: Egyptian Gothic
- Day 5: Alabaster workshop & Luxor temple
- Day 5: Hatshepsut’s Temple
- Day 5: Valley of the Queens & Valley of the Kings
- Day 4: Kom Ombo & Edfu
- Day 3: The Unfinished Obelisk, the High Dam & Philae temple
- Day 2: Dinner and the Souk
- Day 2: Aswan and Abu Simbel
- Eid el Adha Break, Day 1: getting to Aswan
- Ain El Sokhna
- ohhhthat’swhathewassayingnowigetit
- Break!
- Things I Find Confusing
- Bump n go action ! is true!
- Happy Halloween!
- The Corniche
- Midterms = self control
- What Egypt Wears: women
- What Egypt Wears: men
- 3alaqat ma3aayaa (stuck in my head)
- addendum to [bren nɑt wərkɪŋ təde]
- [bren nɑt wərkɪŋ təde]
- Shake it! Belly dance in modern Egypt
- a quiet success
- Pieces of History, part 2: Gosh, It Sure Is Dark In Here!
- Pieces of History, part 1: Pompey’s Pillar
- Alexandrian Panorama: the Qaitbay Citadel
- Input, please!
- FOOD
- “ATTRACTIVE!” : coming to terms with looking like an idiot
- Tutankhamun’s Revenge
- What Happened? Sunday October 9th In Perspective
- The Revolution: an overview
- Foreign Objects
- As promised
- Rosetta
- It’s a man’s world… well, hookah bar.
- Making Faces
- the Citadel and the Seafood
- Amphorae, Aish (Bread) & Aggravating Cultural Conundrums
- Alexandria!
- Cairo Museum
- Mall Country, cont’d: City Stars
- Desert, Tombs, and the wilds of Mall Country
- First Day: Shwarma and Spürsinn (serendipity)
- The Pond has been hopped
- why I am still studying Arabic on 9/11
- Packing cont’d
- Packing
- T Minus 7 Days
The Cultural Sponge · … soaking it all in
Menton seriously has some of the best sunsets in the world. I think I’ve taken at least 10 pictures of the evening sky every night I’ve been here.