Now, to add the kicker, my best subject is off in Oman for a year. For any of you who are still coming around after all my sporadicness of the last many months, thanks.

From snow to sand, adventures of a high school junior from rural Vermont to Muscat, Oman. Monday, January 20, 2014. I would like to thank Davan for what an amazing friend she has been. She was my bus buddy, the sole witness to my eating of a jasmine flower, she helped me when I fell off the bus seats, I was the one who taught her that Kit Kats were an American brand, and I will miss her so much. Sunday, January 5, 2014.

My year abroad through the K-L YES Abroad Scholarship. To learn more about the YES scholarship, click the links below.

My adventures while on the YES Abroad program.

Sometimes when I look around me, I see things so clearly that my heart aches. I see Baobab trees erupt out of the ground like the trunk of an elephant, ending in angular branches at the top, and wonder when I am going to see them next. I see the ocean, the strong waves crashing at my feet, and can feel that I am thousands of miles away from the shores I last touched 8 months ago. But I am at peace.