Making a splash to hide that someone else forced the wave 

The officials and dignitaries sat in neat rows on plush white chairs. The speeches were done on flowered podiums with an expensive-looking figurine of an orangutan and its baby on the front of the stage. We were quietly lurking in the background behind the media. The orangutans at the side of the stage were in crates, in the … More Making a splash to hide that someone else forced the wave 

Why I am travelling alone and am simultaneously ecstatic and terrified about it

Despite the panic I feel when I remind myself that I’m about to travel by myself in an area of the world I’ve never seen or experienced, I’m actually really excited. I am a very easy breezy person, which for me, often and unfortunately translates to being a pushover. I’m the, “oh, it doesn’t matter … More Why I am travelling alone and am simultaneously ecstatic and terrified about it