Category: 1,000 miles
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1,000 miles: step 62
At last, flowers are blossoming and rays of sunshine are beginning to peek through clouds. Little boys and girls are playing. Easter is finding itself on the shelves of stores. I’ve been working with middle school kids for the past 2 weeks. Though I don’t see them every day, their influence has been great on…
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1,000 miles: step 61|Patience
“Isn’t a pair a fruit?” I ask my friend, as we look at yet another beautiful display at the campus library, showcasing vegetables. “Isn’t it also a vegetable?” she responds. I then realize it’s too early in the morning to discuss food groups. I like working in a small group, and am often eager to help out a friend who is stumped on an assignment. The…
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1,000 miles: step 60
I actually came across this whiteboard message a week ago, on my way to one of my tutoring sessions. Although today is a slow Friday, it’s a welcome from the days that have filled up this week. Next week, I have yet another job interview, which adds up the grand total to half a dozen…
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1,000 miles: step 59
This week can’t even be called a week, maybe two weeks wrapped in one. I had an internship interview for the summer this past Wednesday. I’m full of anticipation for this one, because it would involve working with children of all ages and picking up new languages along the way. (Perhaps, I could learn German the fun…
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1,000 miles: step 57
I have grammar books and a learning app for the German language. That I’m studying German on my own is something most people don’t know, mostly because most days, I don’t know it myself. As a bookworm, I know that German storytellers are a precious jewel in the literature world. The language, though, first interested me…
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1,000 miles: step 56
A first-world problem: the app on my iPhone wouldn’t update the schedule for the bus I had to take earlier tonight. I took the next best bus route. When two people got off, I realized they were the last two people for the night. Just the bus driver and me, and I had typical commuter…
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1,000 miles: step 55|Love Letters
Unemployment is frustrating. Jobs don’t just jump into your arms these days. Into February, I’m still looking for a day time job–random tutoring is not enough. Uplifting news: I have an upcoming job interview. The unsettling thing about not being in school or working is that clocks become so loud. It’s not extra time anymore, but this…
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skin
la piel es especial, the skin is special, not skin by itself, skin that has known other skin, skin that can perceive kindness ……………………………. .in a handclasp like when two people meet for the first time: a moment that joins their separate history, ………………………….ignites a recognition …………….of company’s rhythm. Because such skin feels and imprints the sense of having lived.
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1,000 miles: step 54
As a fall 2013 graduate of Northern Virginia Community College, it has been my task for over a month now to find myself a job. Job seeking with an Associate’s Degree and little experience in the field of teaching is problematic. As consolation, I remind myself that a number of people have gone through unemployment and survived.…
Claudia Rojas 