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Well, this isn’t a blog post I’m super pumped to write. I’m currently sitting in the Freetown Airport lounge waiting for my flight back to D.C. I gave my ankle two weeks, but when I was still having lots of trouble with it early this week and my chronic nerve pain started acting up, IContinue reading “Pause”

Today concludes my first full week at Tacugama and it was all over the place. There have been a few days that I’ve felt up to crutching to the other side of the sanctuary where there is an office overlooking a few of these enclosures. I could sit there watching and taking pictures for hours.Continue reading “Ups and Downs”

Well, after months of waiting and 36 hours of travel, I finally made it to the sanctuary! Unfortunately, not a lot has gone according to plan. Late Monday night I sprained my ankle pretty badly. I’m talking golf ball sized lump, nasty purple bruises on both sides, mainly confined to the couch sprain. With lessContinue reading “Some things never change”

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. — Jane Goodall Insert cliché post about how I’ve never done a blog before but will give it a try because I’m about to do something cool, blah blah blah… As much as I feel like these intro posts exist on every single blog published by privilegedContinue reading “Here we go”

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course” Fun fact about me: I LOVE quotes. I have notes on my phone with dozens of them, journals full of them, post its scattered aroundContinue reading “About Me”