its about time.

Wow. So here i am, reading my last posts and realizing that it has been almost 10 months since i last wrote anything simply for fun. I went away to AEI. I lived on and off a bus for 3 months. I slept outdoors every night, i was lucky to get a shower, and i experienced true, untampered, and sober life. I broke my veganism (as it was very cold in the sierra nevadas and i lacked body heat) and learned that it was okay to live life in moderation. A "choosetarian" as one of my classmates had said. Im still vegetarian, i couldn't bring myself to bridge that one. 

The whole experience was absolutely amazing. We began in the Sierra Nevadas amongst the giant redwoods and sequoias and worked our way down into Mexico. We worked and presented at the annual BIONEERS environmental festival in San Rafael and volunteered our time on organic farms. I spent a couple weeks in San Francisco during our break and did an amazing internship at rainforest action network where i learned all about the ways in which a non profit organization works. In mexico we spoke spanish, ate beans and rice...a lot, and backpacked through the Arroyo Grandes. I cant really fully describe how much i learned about myself and the natural world. I connected.  Come late December upon my return I felt a little weird that it was almost christmas.

Many didnt understand my distance. I felt odd...i had been cut off from the world for a while. I was awkward. My structured days were now loose and open. I began riding again, and fell back into a good group of people that i had barely gotten to know before leaving.

Fully adjusted and motivated on life, i have been loving the norms of public community college. SMC is amazing, and im grateful to be living and working in west la again. Ive got great friends now, who really appreciate me, and i love when things work out.

Looking towards the near future...

-having my own space to live in? since ive been couch surfing now for 4 months.

-learning film photography

-finishing my general education and transferring to a Cal State.

-saving up the $$$

so happy to be back with my family.