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Clear filtersHow The Hell Did I End Up in Ohio?
October 7, 2015
I walked in with no expectations. No pre-conceived ideas of what Uni would be like. No idea of how my life was going to change.
The future is but a soup
May 3, 2015
I contend with my post-grad future through reflecting on age-old proverbs from my past.
For New International Students, Or, When the Brochure Is Not Enuf
July 25, 2014
Incoming internationals, this one's for you. Welcome, my fellow non-residential aliens :)
Remembering Orientation: My First Journey to Oberlin
August 13, 2013
The Oberlin experience changes you in ways you don't always see as they occur but became obvious as you look back at your former self.
Urdu for the Frustrated English Speaker's Soul
October 17, 2012
Did you know that in Urdu, there are at least two different ways of pronouncing 'th'? That English speakers are almost physically incapable of deepening their d's?
A Thanksgiving First
November 28, 2011
Unsurprisingly, it turned out that sometime last week was Thanksgiving Day in the United States. I really should have been aware of this, given that my obsession with the festivities surrounding this November supper run astonishingly deep for someone who grew up in Zimbabwe where turkeys, if they ever existed there, had probably long buckled under societal pressure and just converted themselves into either chickens or cows or zebras in order to fit in.
From Africa to America: Bridging the Cultural Divide
October 31, 2011
On many an occasion during and after orientation when I have had to introduce myself, I have encountered a number of interesting scenarios in which my first name ignited a hilarious chain of events.
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