I'm sitting here in my bed, lamenting the end of spring break. I ended up Amtrak-ing up to Monreal with Zoe (a Swattie) and my sister. We had a really college-y experience, and even though we didn't get to "do" much, I had a great time navigating the city...strictly by subway! (well we took the taxi once but only because it was freezing and we didn't want to walk) We didn't have a car, no parents, a couple bucks in our pockets (American money too..)..it was just up to us and a couple maps to figure things out. It was quite the exciting challenge nevertheless, and I would really like to go back to Montreal during the summer because it really is a beautiful city et je peux pratiquer mon francais (qu'il est mal). yikes..and to think that I took all those years of French? haha. So after Montreal, I spent a couple of fabulous days in NYC and had a great time going to comedy/stand-up shows and a jazz cafe, baking cupcakes from scratch, and just having food fusion food. I can really see myself living in NYC in the future...jazz cafes open on a Tuesday night? yes!

Anyway, I'm back at Swat, "cooking," sending in internship apps, catching up on work and all that good stuff. The Village Education Project is hosting a Global Education Week next week at Swat so we've been doing a lot of prep for that! We're doing a Sharples takeover (showing a slideshow of pics during lunch), showing a movie about global ed, having an international student panel about education around the world, hosting a Parrish Parlors Party featuring...EMPANADAS!!! and ending off our week with a "black-tie" people auction which should be pretty fun. I'm really excited about it and will hopefully be putting up some pictures of the events from next week :)

Btw, if you're interested in volunteering in Ecuador this summer, tutoring students in English and Math, please email me. (KLAM1 [at] swarthmore.edu) Applications are due next month but contact me now to request more info and an application!

Well here are a couple pre-spring break pics (they're all actually from the same day) and a spring break pic for kicks..



There was a big snow storm a week or two ago and Sharples turned on the fire (the REAL deal, not the gas/electric stuff) so we decided to sit in front of the fire and eat. :) ...and chat..and sit there for a verrry long time


Then as Shilpa and I were walking towards the library, we bumped into Liz and decided we should take a picture with her.


another pretty picture of the snowstorm


post-snowstorm taken by my sister

And here's a picture from Montreal...