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Katie at Home

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About Me


"can't you see the beauty you've been given?
don't you want to test it?
ride it like a race car?"
-Quitzow

My Interests

Reading, snuggling, music, travel in developing countries (esp.in Asia), scuba diving, poetry, playing with little ones, dancing, dairy products, thunderstorms, risks that pay off, tulips, feminism, anti-consumerism, paying attention, surprises

I'd like to meet:

Brave people. People who still wonder. Anyone who is as awake as possible.

Music:

Cat Power, Cocorosie, My Morning Jacket, Quitzow, Bjork, 80s U2 and REM, Patty Griffin, Hayden, Travis, The Shins, Modest Mouse, The Faint, Ikuko Harada, Joseph Arthur, old Tori Amos, Buena Vista Social Club, Bebel Gilberto, American Princes, Tel Aviv,to name a few...

Movies:

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles-- All the Real Girls-- Born into Brothels-- My Life Without Me-- The Science of Sleep- Me and You and Everyone We Know-- Waking Life-- 3-Iron-- The Spitfire Grill-- Shag

Television:

DOG the Bounty Hunter....Trashy-looking people with good intentions....delightful...

Books:

Some of my favorite poets: Lorca, Bishop, Tagore, Creeley, Nye, Piercy, Strand, Plath, Justice, Howe, Rumi... Otherwise, fiction or travelouges

Heroes:

Stuttgart kiddos, Joel (i had to re-edit her profile... so i get to plug myself ;)

My Blog

What´s Spanish for SURPRISE??!!

Cadiz, Spain.  The longest-inhabited city in Western Europe (3000 years), with strong Moorish influences.  Also my last port, and with the euro so strong now, i planned to take it easy, stay...
Posted by Katie at Home on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:37:00 PST

Trans-continental friends in Croatia/Osojnik Loveliness

Croatia.  A mostly Catholic country that's been peaceful only since the war that ended in the late 90s.  Its shaped like the letter C, with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the middle.  The Or...
Posted by Katie at Home on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:43:00 PST

Why Im Moving to Istanbul...

well, maybe not anytime Soon, but Istanbul is the most beautiful city ever! my new favorite.  i would literally be walking around, talking with people, and stop mid-sentence, stand still, and mar...
Posted by Katie at Home on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:38:00 PST

Egyptology

I am typing this from right to left, as that is how Arabic is read and written (and how Microsoft Word is set on this computer!).  ..: Egypt is unreal.  The bible says the holy family fled h...
Posted by Katie at Home on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:06:00 PST

Rural Thailand English Camp

I honestly don't know where to begin with my time in Thailand!  So much goodness packed into 4 days&.I led a group of 14 students to Esan, a northeastern part of the country, to lead an English c...
Posted by Katie at Home on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:26:00 PST

"Incredible !ndia: The Mantra to Woo Tourist"

That was the slogan on the side of our bus our first day in Chennai (Madras), India.  Good stuff.  Random things seen from bus window on way to Mamallapurum and meditation retreat: -an Engli...
Posted by Katie at Home on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:48:00 PST

Sad in Saigon

Its raining in Saigon and I am (shamefully) contemplating cheering myself up in that most capitalist of ways, shopping....The rain isnt what's got me down, it rained in Japan and China too... a little...
Posted by Katie at Home on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:04:00 PST

Chinese Typhoon

We sailed  between 2 typhoons off the coasts of Japan and China to dock in Qingdao-the 4th largest port in mainland PRC a few days ago.  So, needless to say, it was Humid and Rainy and Hazy....
Posted by Katie at Home on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:16:00 PST

Ja-pan Wo-man

Its my last day in Japan, and I am taking it somewhat easy, given that my foot (remember car accident/wheelchair 2 years ago?!) wants to work in Qingdao (mainland China) and Hong Kong... A bit ab...
Posted by Katie at Home on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:37:00 PST

Around the World in 100 days...

I got my dream job!  The voyage i've been wanting to repeat since my senior year of college.  Yep, this Fall I will be employed with Semester at Sea.  For 3 months I will live on a ship...
Posted by Katie at Home on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:50:00 PST