slowly, slowly.

The night I arrived in Tanzania, my project coordinator taught me one of the most important phrases that I would need throughout my time here, and alternatively, one of the hardest things for me to get used to. Pole, pole…

The night I arrived in Tanzania, my project coordinator taught me one of the most important phrases that I would need throughout my time here, and alternatively, one of the hardest things for me to get used to. Pole, pole…

Wow! These last few weeks have been a whirlwind! As I worked hard to plan my trip to Nepal, school simultaneously kicked my butt. Just within the last week of school, I had an analytics presentation, empirical study in economics,…
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned as to have the life that is waiting for us” -Jeffery Campbell If you would have told me four years ago that I would be graduating from Belmont,…

Today, I am headed back to the US for 2 weeks! Since I have been unable to obtain my Haitian visa, my 3 months of being in Haiti runs out on May 7. Providence would have it that I have…
At the beginning of the month I was marking off squares on heat resistant interlining for our potholders when I noticed that I had ran out of interlining at 6 ½ squares instead of the 7 there should have been…

Hi friends and fam! **This is a post that was meant to be posted a few weeks ago, but the server was down on the Lumos blog site!** Happy Spring!!! It has felt so good to know that longer days…

The past 2 weeks have been mostly same old same old, working hard towards marketing goals and trying to find ways to generate cash flow for the company, improving in my Creole, and trying to find time to eat healthy,…

I cannot believe it’s April! As of the 1st, I am officially half way through my Lumos journey! The first half has been better than I could have ever imagined, and I can’t wait to see what the second half…

N’ap kenbe, we’re holding. A few nights ago, I was out eating tacos and catching some March Madness at a local restaurant geared towards job creation when I was slightly caught off guard by a new expat asking what jobs…

Hello friends and fam! I hope you are doing well. I’m writing this update at home sick in bed. We are now fully into the “smoky season” here in Chiang Mai, and I’ve never experienced air quality like this before.…