Monthly Archives: May 2018

debbie dumpster dive!

debs/ May 28, 2018

A memory I have that will always bring me a smile was the moment we met our Tønsberg WWOOF host.

We were still reminiscing our time at the Gjøvik farm, when we stepped off the train from Oslo to Tønsberg into an epic downpour.  In our entire time in Norway, we would never seen it rain as hard as it did this day. Without phones to call (both our phones were broken by now) or WiFi to use my laptop, we were left at the train station waiting, trusting that our host would pick us up.  Obviously, we didn’t know what the host would look like, but we were hoping our Asian-ness will be enough of an eyesore to catch his attention.

Several minutes later, we see a tall (even for Norwegian standards!) man roll up on a bike in front of us …

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Notes from this Semester of Human Becoming

debs/ May 9, 2018

Before it happened, I simultaneously (a) fantasized about and (b) dreaded finding out what kind of adult I would become.

(a) I fantasized because, observing the adult world had been a marathon of “I would never do/care/like that when I become and adult!” and now I FINALLY get to make my own choices and be the adult I have always told myself I would become.

(b) I dreaded it because, in amassing a list of mantras, faux-pas, instructions on how (not) to be an adult (dedicated to adult debbie, courtesy of childhood debbie), I imposed on myself the herculean burden of becoming the adult that my childhood self would have looked up to.

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