Isla Palma

Spent three nights, four days in Isla Palma, a small island just off the coast of Tolu, Colombia. This resort is one of the most beautiful I've ever been to. The workers there are friendly and anyone can have a conversation with them. The waters are beautiful and there's so much beach, and so little people that each couple, family etc. can have their own section of sand. The scuba diving wasn't THAT great but the fact that you can breathe underwater for more than a minute is enough to fascinate you. I even got to hold a starfish in my hand :). The sunsets are beautiful and most of all, the life at night is incredible. I personally loved the nightlife more than during the day. The best thing about this place is its uniqueness. It's decorated rustically, but still, it's very clean and modern in its own way. However, there is music always blasting, and people always dancing. If you are not latin american, it's most likely you won't enjoy this place. It's very cultural, but it's not diverse. In three words, it was great.

Katharine McPhee - Terrified

I always thought that if I were to try out for some singing program, I'd sing this.

Bogotá

I want to live here so badly it's ridiculous. Everything is much simpler and cheaper. I have so much family here it's ridiculous and honestly, I could picture myself being here for a while. My view from the window is the city of Bogotá and just beyond it, the mountains with low fog making it's green hazy. So many friends here, and so many things to do every single day-I love Bogotá, Colombia.

If your love wasn't enough the first time around,
it won't be any better the second time.

Back in Florida, Miss you Bahamas

Not going to lie, this has to be one of the best vacations ever. The Bahamas. Where can I even start? Besides the fact that it was incredibly relaxing and all around enjoyable, it was also one of the most wild vacations. This is my third time at the Atlantis resort, but before I was too young to really have much liberty etc. This time, I didn't have the freaking walkie talkies to stay in contact with parents, nothing. My cousin and I just went around, went on rides, hung out at night and chilled. Met lots of people, hung out with my family a lot, danced tons and just straight up enjoyed myself without the trouble of anything in the world.

Bahamas 2011, amazing.

Today, coming into NYC felt weird as shit. It didn't feel like I had lived in it for fifteen years. It felt strange and distant. Maybe it has to do with the lack of there being certain things in NYC that makes me want to flee it nowadays. Or maybe it's because there's a gap in me that has just made me feel as though I am misplaced. I just know that ever since I got back from BROWN, this doesn't feel like home and that's kind of shocking for me.

I always believed that this would be my permanent home, and that I would always be dragged back here but I guess I've learned today (because it just hit me) that although you believe you've reached your maximum self and have come to final decisions: people change. I will change. Things change. Not realizing that now will make you all the more prone to altering.

The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is clear of clouds, seems to us simply the natural condition of the earth and air. When we think of the downs, we think of the downs in daylight, as with think of a rabbit with its fur on. Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not: and we do not usually envisage the downs without daylight, even though the light is not a part of the down itself as the hide is part of the horse itself. We take daylight for granted. But moonlight is another matter. It is inconstant. The full moon wanes and returns again. Clouds may obscure it to an extent to which they cannot obscure daylight. Water is necessary to us, but a waterfall is not. Where it is to be found it is something extra, a beautiful ornament. We need daylight and to that extent it us utilitarian, but moonlight we do not need. When it comes, it serves no necessity. It transforms. It falls upon the banks and the grass, separating one long blade from another; turning a drift of brown, frosted leaves from a single heap to innumerable flashing fragments; or glimmering lengthways along wet twigs as though light itself were ductile.

-Richard Adams