Megs the Wanderer

Megs the Wanderer

Stories From Life's Journey

  • ABOUTThis one is about Me. Yay! Some filler words for now, until I write something nice and neat and all that to display about me…detailed stuff.
  • PEACE CORPS
  • TOPICS
    • Peace Corps
    • travel
    • teaching
    • culture
    • Indonesia
  • Blog
    • STORIES
      • Night Train to Colombo
      • Keep Spirit
      • Chatting with a Monk in Thailand
      • Elections and Hope in Sri Lanka
      • Wandering in Wales
      • Meeting Krishna
      • Wedding Crasher
      • Hildegard’s Abbey
      • Disfigurement and Grace
      • An invitation to the journey
  • PROJECTS
    • The Journey
    • Life in Indonesia
  • Spring 2022

    Spring 2022

    Emerging from winter, opening to spring. Photos taken in Skagit Valley and Guemes Island in Washington state, April 28-30, 2022.

    megsthewanderer

    21 May 2022
    photo
    flower, gallery, photo, Photography
  • Saying Goodbye

    Saying Goodbye

    The rain came, and it seemed nonstop for an entire month. Streets flooded, water rushed under bridges, and still the rain fell. July 2018 brought floods to areas of the Sichuan province, drenching my final days in China. With mixed emotions, I looked out the window of my 15th floor apartment and sighed. From atop […]

    megsthewanderer

    7 June 2021
    Peace Corps, teaching
    2018, China, goodbye, memory, Peace Corps, rain, Sichuan, teaching
  • You Are Not Alone: A Story of Friendship and Hope

    You Are Not Alone: A Story of Friendship and Hope

    This building haunts me. Its imposing architecture and location rend it as the focal point across the sparse college campus at Mianyang Teachers’ College. Long gray buildings no more than 10 years old with paint already cracked span the wide roads. Small trees still growing line the road leading toward it from the main gate. […]

    megsthewanderer

    17 August 2020
    Peace Corps, story
    2017, China, Mianyang, suicide prevention, you are not alone
  • Semester of Storytelling

    Semester of Storytelling

    In the Spring Semester of 2018 at 绵阳师范学院 (Mianyang Teachers’ College), I explored storytelling with my Sophomore classes. I guided them each week through the basics of the hero’s journey, genre, and sequencing toward a final group project. The project was to form a story, write the dialogue, and finally film themselves performing their story. […]

    megsthewanderer

    14 August 2020
    Peace Corps, story, teaching
    2018, China, Mianyang, story, teaching
  • Blog resumes

    Several drafts and ideas for posts have sat unfinished over the past year. Days, weeks, and months passed, with occasional attempts to start writing again; however, each time if I started at all, I found I lacked the concentration to follow through. A few sentences here, a blank page there, an empty and scattered mind […]

    megsthewanderer

    12 August 2020
    Uncategorized
    2020, update
  • Awaken

    Awaken

    Awaken to Spring’s arrival. Photos taken on March 30, 2019 on the University of Washington Campus in Seattle.

    megsthewanderer

    7 April 2019
    photo
    gallery, photo, seasons, Seattle, spring
  • The Beautiful Snowy Present

    The Beautiful Snowy Present

    A rare series of snowstorms have rendered the Seattle area into a beautiful winter scene.

    megsthewanderer

    10 February 2019
    Uncategorized
    gallery, photo, seasons, Seattle, snow, winter
  • The Bikes of Chengdu

    The Bikes of Chengdu

    In the Spring of 2017 the dockless shared bike system fronted by Ofo made its way to the campus of Mianyang Teachers College in China’s Sichuan Province. The craze had spread across China’s larger cities, and to Sichuan’s capital Chengdu earlier. At the time my students expressed pride in this “great Chinese invention”–and then were […]

    megsthewanderer

    6 February 2019
    Peace Corps
    bikes, bikeshare, Chengdu, China, ofo, Sichuan
  • Beijing

    Beijing

    In the final days of my time in China (July 2018), I was able to take a quick trip to Beijing. I only had a few days, which left me quite rushed, though I made the best of it. Here are some photos. What Beijing trip wouldn’t be complete without visiting Tiananmen square? The square […]

    megsthewanderer

    9 December 2018
    Peace Corps, travel
    Beijing, China, Tiananmen, travel
  • Lijiang

    Lijiang

    Last week I wrote about the wonder I experienced when I visited the Tiger Leaping Gorge in the Yunnan Province last April. During that trip I also visited nearby Lijiang, though I had less than a day to spend there before I had to be back in Mianyang. Here are some photos from that quick […]

    megsthewanderer

    28 October 2018
    Peace Corps, travel
    China, Lijiang, photo, travel, Yunnan
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