Category Stories

So it Begins

Salam! Greetings from Addis Ababa! These last couple of days have been hectic, but I’m glad to have my feet firmly planted on the ground now. My journey started on Friday, 5/15, when I left Nashville for Chicago. I was…

Midnight Sun and Labor Strikes

I talk so much about the weather here – a dull topic in any other place in the world I am aware – but with each week that passes here I feel more and more that it serves as a…

Belmont Abroad

I waited a bit to write this blog because I didn’t have much that was blog worthy in the past couple of weeks. This past Friday I met up with the study abroad group from Belmont and spent the day…

To Addis: An Unexpected Journey

Well what a whirlwind these last few days have been. On Saturday, I graduated from Belmont University with a degree in Finance. Today, I stand just six days away from traveling to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to work with Ellilta Women…

From Here to Anywhere: Jen’s Lumos Journey

“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” —Eleanor Roosevelt My name is Jeanette Morelan, and in just nine days, I will be leaving my home in Wisconsin and traveling to Port Elizabeth, South Africa. As I…

To Leave, Yet to Be Right at Home

WHOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To think, soon, I’ll be headed off on a plane headed for a place that I call my home, but that I don’t really remember all that well. It’s been eight or nine years since I was last in…

Why Kenya?

I graduated from college yesterday. In about one month I board a plane to Kenya. (I am also taking the GRE between now and then). I think about all these things and I have to laugh and cry and remind…

Climate Changes

It was the nicest day we’d seen yet. Myself and two of the artists with whom I shared a studio for April set out in the AM for Snaefellesnes peninsula, an area just a few hours from Reykjavik known as…