I was getting all sentimental again yesterday when I was running, listening to this song by Late Tuesday called "I Must Go" about leaving the place I'm at and going on a new road. You can buy it on Itunes for a buck and listen to it. It is the theme song for the year I decided. So much transition! Here's an update I wrote today: Since I’m going to Uzbekistan tomorrow, I figured I’d better do some research on the country. I read a bit about it on Wikipedia, and here are some interesting things I learned. Where is Uzbekistan? [View Full Entry]

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So, after the past few months in AK absolutely soaking up the newness of a snowy frozen place in the arctic, I have returned home to debrief and pack for these upcoming trips. The day I got back I attended the wedding of a friend in my occupational therapy class at UW. It was wonderful to see my classmates again and reminece old times from school. I did get the joy of a shower of a classmate’s red wine in my eye, my hair, and all down the front of my red (luckily) dress, out on the dance floor! No harm [View Full Entry]

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I’m new to this whole blog thing, but we’ll see how it goes. A week ago I was treasuring my last days in Alaska with a wonderful community of people I have come to know and love in the past year. To back track a little, (I’ll try not to elaborate too much), I recently finished my Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy. During the first few months of the program in Fall 2005 we were encouraged as students to begin to think about where we would like to do our two 12 week fieldwork rotations. Knowing I wanted to travel somewhere [View Full Entry]

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We went on Saturday to the state fair called Puyallup Fair (pronounced pew all up). The fair is on from the 7th till the 23rd of September. When we left the house in the morning it was 58°F and when we arrived at the showground 45 mins later it was 68°F. It was a scorcher, not a cloud in the sky. The fair itself is a mixture of animal shows/displays, rodeo and and big fair with bungee jumping rollercoasters etc. We wanted to see the rodeo and a thing called Mutton Bustin'. Mutton Bustin is where kids under 6 and 60lbs [View Full Entry]

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