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KHala

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About Me

The master said 'You must write what you see.'
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered 'Change what you see.'

(Louise Gluck)
After graduating from high school in 2001, I moved to Boston to study French and American Literature and Culture at Boston University. I spent my junior year abroad, first working in Lugano, Switzerland, and then studying in Grenoble, France. In the Fall of 2004, I returned to BU to finish my undergraduate degree and start a Master's. At the same time, I worked as an editor of a magazine and then as a graduate intern for BU's Orientation Office.
In September 2006, I moved to Arles in the South of France to teach English. I am still living in Arles and started a new job in Avignon in October 2007. You can find my photos on Flickr .

My Interests

travel, photography, surprising poetry, swimming, riding my bike, letters: sending and receiving, red wine, grace, men's choirs

Music:

Mozart, Radiohead, Morten Lauridsen, Magnetic Fields, PJ Harvey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bjork, Palestrina, Brahms, Lou Reed, Chopin, Debussy

Movies:

Ken Park, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Philadelphia Story, L'Auberge Espagnole, Annie Hall

Books:

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Foer), Dante's Commedia (Dante), The Razor's Edge (Maugham), The Vigil (Williams), Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky), Gone With The Wind (Mitchell), Lolita (Nabokov), The End of the Affair (Greene), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez) The Bible (God / Misc), Meadowlands (Gluck), Les Poesies de Stephane Mallarme (Mallarme)