99 Problems but a Flood Ain’t One

I often find the question of how you have grown during an experience a quite difficult question to answer. I feel like it is something that happens gradually or goes below the radar. I do not think that it is easy to identify ways you have grown without facing a challenge or a moment where…

Culture Iceberg in the Marseille Heat

Over the past month, I have gotten acquainted with differences in cultural norms, both “deep culture” and “surface culture”. I have even started to try and embrace some of them in my own daily life while being here.  To start with “deep culture,” the concept of space here is one that has definitely taken a…