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Trying to come up with a travel tumblr and ALL OF THE NAMES ARE TAKEN WITH NO POSTS

can’t we have them deleted after a certain amount of inactivity?

I don’t know how many of you still follow this since I only use it sporadically now (i.e. when I see something pretty on the internet) but I wanted to do a quick update on my life.

1. MY BEST FRIEND AND I WENT TO ICELAND AND IT WAS AWESOME.
Emily (witchqueenofneworleans.tumblr.com for those who are interested) and I took a week long journey into the land of wonders aka Iceland. it was magical, wonderful, mysterious, enlightening, everything I hoped for and more. IT FUCKING SNOWED ON THE FIRST DAY. And I got to see snow for the first time in this beautiful country. *hand to gawd* I died. I would HIGHLY recommend anyone who loves nature and beautiful landscapes to go to Iceland IMMEDIATELY. It was spectacular. I may post pictures of my own shortly.

2. I’M MOVING TO THAILAND FOR TEN MONTHS! Wait, what? Iceland and Thailand in the same year? Could I FIND two more opposite places? I’m going to be teaching English to some beautiful Thai children (placement location and age group still pending, though I’m hoping for a city and for some wee little pre k - 3rd graders) and I leave in THREE WEEKS. Holy. I’m scared/excited/nervous/amazed/thrilled/hopeful/terrified/overwhelmed/in love/already missing my family / every feeling you could think and more. This is about to be the craziest, exciting, life changing adventure I could ever hope for and I can’t wait.

I’ll be starting a new tumblr so I can keep in touch with my friends and family and easily blog and post pictures while I’m there. (name suggestions still appreciated) I’ll post the link here/reblog the highlights as well.

Those are the highlights. Aside from that- I’m currently living at home, got back together with the love of my life (side note- long distance sucks, but hopefully that will be done in about a year) missing college/my friends, hating my day job, have no idea what I’m going to do for the rest of my life, but I have the next year figured out so that’s all that matters.

Cheers!

xox

thoughts?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2013/jan/03/reel-history-the-impossible

In the opening scenes, The Impossible establishes the Bennetts as people of privilege. They fly business class, Maria gets snippy about having a sea view from her room, and husband and wife have an awkwardly scripted conversation about whether she should go back to her job as a doctor after taking several years off to have children. Meanwhile, their elegant beach resort is so jam-packed with rich white people that it could be mistaken for the Republican national convention. All this might look like it’s setting up for a searing commentary on the disproportionate attention given to rich white people versus the mostly not so rich Asian people who were the overwhelming majority of victims of the tsunami. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Quite the opposite. The film seems unaware of its own politics – though it certainly has some.

When the tsunami subsides, the film’s dubious racial politics make an unwelcome reappearance. Maria is tended to by a villageful of kindly Thais, whose job seems to be rescuing white holidaymakers while not saying anything. They take her to a hospital. En route, there are lots more wounded white tourists lying around in the road, some being tended to by yet more kindly Thais not saying anything. Both at the beach and in the hospital, almost all the victims of this disaster appear to be white. The Alvárez-Belón family’s story is moving, dramatic and true, and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be told; but it’s a shame that that the film excludes any meaningful acknowledgment of the disaster’s Asian victims while doing so.