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And in Ring #2: Wanderlust vs. Life in the ‘Hood

August 10th 2005
While flipping through some cultural magazine, I once read, “If you really want to know a country, work there.” And I must admit, there is a lot of truth to that statement. For even though I had lived in Rome for 8 months prior to my current sojourn here, I feel that I know the city in a completely different way due to my experience in the last 10 weeks. As a student I may have wrapped up in ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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"As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.... If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden) So I did it, escaped the conformity of the corporate ratrace while I still had my youth and sanity, to see the world with my own two eyes and embrace all its beauty and ugliness. Central America to Europe to Southeast Asia in 2005; 2006 will find me ex... full info

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