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Trinidad Carnival: 7 things to know before you go
Trinidad likes its Carnival wild and wotless, its revelers unabashed and its partying nonstop. Carnival, or more accurately pronounced, cahneeval, translated loosely means a farewell to flesh, or meat.
Living in NYC kind of sucks
New York City can render you insignificant in a matter of days. It’s not that I don’t love the idea of being here, because I do. But it bears zero resemblance to the Sex and the City dreaminess that I fantasized about. Those chicks never took the train…
Post-flight rejuvenation
I never want to look haggard after a flight and, I assume, neither do most people. Although, for the mother and daughter travelers who boarded my last flight wearing matching fleece pajamas with polar bears in Santa hats…
Infographic design
Bhutanese light up Syracuse for Dipawali
When the candles are lit, the marigolds are strung and the money is out, Laxmi will come. It doesn’t matter that the candles are standard tea lights from the Dollar Tree down the street and not the copper…
Dear T&T: What happened to you?
So, generally this blog is about my love affair with travel and the lighter, more beautiful aspects of the pasttime I hold so dear to my heart. But I cannot always live in a rose-colored travel world. Sometimes, the love wanes (only briefly) and the issues that affect the world and travel come to light. I suppose it is relevant to discuss the complete picture of a true love affair anyway, because the love wouldn’t be real without a little heartache. Except this is a big heartache. The source of my woes is my own sweet Trinidad & Tobago. After 11 people were…
A summer in Syracuse
It is time to get serious. No more wining the night away, fête after fête, for Carnival. No more all day beach sessions in California when only my hunger pangs could separate me from the sand. No more eats and greets and whatever my little heart desires. No. The fêtes have been replaced by writing, writing has taken over my beach days, and the eats and greets have been substituted with–writing. Syracuse, me, and my painstakingly expelled 6,452 words, have spent a beautiful summer together in grad school. And by beautiful I mean I never saw anything outside of my often blank computer screen…
Somali Bantu community gets grant for success
Members of the Somali Bantu community and other local refugee groups will see a monetary boost for their resettlement services this year, thanks to a grant from the state of New York. The Somali Bantu Community Association received its first payment from an $84,000 grant last month. The New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, OTDA, awarded the grant to the association for refugee social services. The money, to be paid quarterly over three years, is intended to aid the association in providing job training and placement, English-language classes, and ensuring overall long-term community growth for the refugee population.…