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Laurel

About Me

I am an Anthropology Major with a specialization in Spanish and film, I also waitress and bartend at a Mexican restaurant. What else? I love to laugh and spend time with friends. I hate rude and inconsiderate people. Working in the service industry i have learned to deal with them but I still cant stand them. so be good to one another and say please, thank you, and excuse me. It is not that hard :o) I just returned from a semester abroad in Bolivia and it is really hard to be back. I lived with the most incredible family and I taught English in a male prison down there. I did two documentary films on the prison and a hunger strike going there. After the program ended I volunteered for two weeks in an animal sanctuary working with monkeys. Well I am going to graduate in May and who knows what will come next, hopefully something equally fulfilling.

My Interests

Knitting and wine... also Kickboxing, snowboarding, drawing, attempting to play pool, frisbee golf and being utterly unproductive

I'd like to meet:

Too many to name

Music:

everything but country ( I still love you sierra and gillian) Dylan, Petty, Violent Femmes, Wilco, counting crows, pearl jam, bonnie raitt, beck, coldplay, johnson, classic soul...

Movies:

Amelie, Frida, Full metal Jacket, The Last Waltz, Fast times at Ridgemont high...

Television:

Law and Order, The Cosby Show, The Daily Show,

Books:

The Know It All, Running with Scissors, Dry, On the Road, Breakfast of Champions,

Heroes:

My Parents, they are just awsome people and I hope to end up as cool as them

My Blog

Ramblings

Don't really know what prompted me to write a blog, its not like there is anything new or interesting going on, I had a rough time coming back from such a fun adventure. I feel like nothing has chang...
Posted by LAUREL on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:47:00 PST

monkeys and Argentina

well my trip is coming to an end. i am now in Argentina and it is so different from where i just was. I just spent the past two weeks working with monkeys in the jungle in the chapare. It was insaine,...
Posted by LAUREL on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST

still rocking it in bolivia

Well it has been a while since i have written and not to much has happened.  I had parasites, three types of single cell amebas living in my belly.  What else, i finished my documentary in t...
Posted by LAUREL on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:54:00 PST

my trip to the campo

well I am finally back from a very poorly organized very entertaining trip to the campo a small community of about ten families that live more than an hour and a half away from anything.  It took...
Posted by LAUREL on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:46:00 PST

Hunger strike in the Prisons!

Well this week has been very intese. I have spent most of it in prison. Reasearching that is. There is a hunger strike going on country wide in the prisons and some how i got in and video taped the me...
Posted by LAUREL on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:00 PST

Hola from Bolivia!

Hola Amigos    Well just thought I might as well take advantage of this whole blog thing now that it is so expensive to try to keep in contact out of the US.  Well I am in Bolivia and s...
Posted by LAUREL on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:03:00 PST