A reflection of my time in Bosnia & Herzegovina, written for Most-Mira and CUNY's Project on Peacebuilding 2018: Democracy and Post-Conflict Politics in BiH. For more info on this exceptional course: http://www.mostmiraproject.org * I press my forehead against the window of our van as we enter Bosnia & Herzegovina. The landscape swills, filling my locked eyes [...]
Author: Phoebe
To: My Big Brother, Tom
To: My Big Brother Tom From: Your Little Sister Phoebe Cc: Our Friend Autism Subject: Some things I thought I aut’ to share Dear Tom, “For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.” – A.A. Milne, The World of Winnie The Pooh. Oh don’t look like that, I’m only kidding. [...]
So long, Montréal: on houses, homes and how to begin to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Phoebe: i found it so weird being at home, because nothing had changed, and it was like canada was this weird fantasy world that i surely hands [hadn’t] lived in for four months but totally had like when the pevensie children spend their whole lives in narnia then come out and it’s the moment after [...]
Letters from Montréal: October 2017
What I talk about when I talk about 'What I talk about when I talk about running' It’s been a while, hasn’t it? And yet it feels like no time at all. I’ve been in Montréal on my year abroad for almost two months now, but every so often it seems like two years or [...]
Europe 9. ROME-ING AROUND
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure Eagerly launching an early morning, I organised our bookings for the Vatican and nibbled on a cracker based breakfast. Once the technological deal was sealed, we set off swiftly and said goodbye to Kaila who was going to meet Serena. We arrived at [...]
Europe 8. HBD 2 Kaila Conley-Controversey
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure It was our favourite (admittedly only) American-Italian amie's 18th birthday today, so we made sure it would be celebrated in style. When Kaila left the house in the morning to 'sort out her band card', the rest of us covered the table with [...]
Neverland revisited
“Why can't you fly now, mother *** I'm 19 now, and I've devloped a rather dubious (and completely subjective) sociological theory which explains why this really is the worst age in the world. It's a carefully constructed and well thought-out social observation which demonstrates a keen lack of scientific reasoning, but balanced by a healthy [...]
Europe 7. Ciao Lerici, we beseech thee, Flo was not fond of your Iced Peach Tea, but each of us will miss your beach, even when we reach Rome Termini
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure And so went our last day in Lerici, which was naturally spent, rather than Lerici, out-of-town trekking in La Spezia and the first of the Cinque Terras. Our first stop raiding the local supermarket, we then explored La Spezia with our packed lunches [...]
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (review)
The pressure was high and the colours were bright as Emma Rice painted the final strokes of her career as Artistic Director of the the internationally acclaimed Kneehigh. In an innovative explosion of music, balloons, paint-brushes, banners, torches, choreography and confetti, this production ironically may not be anything new from the company’s renowned style, but [...]
Europe 6. the fabulous food of fabrizio & nati
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure *** Being the morning lark that I most famously am, I forced myself awake at 8:30am for a lonesome stroll along and around Lerici and then into the next village of San Terenzo. I ventured up to the supermarket, finally conquering the European [...]
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