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I love this "They Came Out Ants" essay: it's an investigation about the Chinese who hid in labyrinth-like tunnels in Mexico in the 1900s and that they only came out like ants when there was a great fire! Amazing! Content-wise and how it was written! I still have two more essays left. The other one I skipped.

Almost there, hun

Uninterested in the last two essays: a story about being adrift in the ocean and the rivers of America. I'm preoccupied w a lot of things from real life lately. But I vow to finish this collection of essays next week!

One of the essays that I loved the most and the best so war is Leap Year by Mark Jenkins from Outside Magazine. It narrates his moving to Spain for an entire year and reflects on the difference between traveling and moving to a brand new place. I can say I've related to it so much because I just moved to the U.S. months ago. ;-)

I loved "My Thai Girlfriends" well-written and witty

The Vertigo Girls Do the East Tonto Trail and An Impossible Place to Be. Both very informative.

"Kindergarten" takes us to a quiet part of China, telling the story of a boy and the American.

"Route 3" describes the normal-ness of a road that had so much charm into it according to the writer. It's a very personal piece about an ordinary piece of road, and trying to walk on its sidewalk. "A Really Big Lunch" is about a guy who traveled all the way to France just to eat a 37-course lunch with his friends. Both are very informative and interesting.

In "In the Land of the Surfing Hippos," we are taken to a national park in Africa and oh my god this has to be one of the best things I've read this year - the description of the birds, the hippo that they woke up, the swimming blue crab, the turtles giving birth... it was so refreshing. It was a wild adventure. One for the books! Also, the writer writes like magic. I'm doing one essay per day

Leisure reading as icebreaker. The last chapter I've read was William Bundell's My Florida where his depressing father decides to move to Florida where he could retire happily with other retirees to golf and try to live like the young but Florida is actually not all palm trees, beaches, and drugs - it's alarmingly boring and suffocating - at least in his side of town.

Reading the intro, i started to understand the meaning of loneliness that i felt when i was away from home to further my secondary school education.