January 01st, 2018

I am Emily. I have returned to the states reluctantly to attend university at Brigham Young University, in Utah, where I study linguistics. What do I want to do with Linguistics? It changes by the month, but hopefully I will have figured it out by April 2018, when I graduate. Thanks to my upbringing I have caught the travel bug bad, and I now go stir crazy if I stay in one place for too long. I have used this as an excuse to live in Spain for the summer of 2016, to mejorar my Spanish, and I have lived in Jordan for three months in fall 2017, to تحسّن (improve) my Arabic. I love to read the news and to think, preferably to do both in different languages, and I will talk about political issues, to anyone who will listen. I also love to play the piano and violin with my family, to climb trees with Anna, and to ballroom dance. I know I’m supposed to be at college right now, but I’d much rather be traveling with my family in Central America