No Money, No Degree
Yesterday I got some expected but difficult news, my research team was not successful in its Templeton Grant application. The understanding that I have with my current department is that I can stay with them as long as I am able to secure enough money for a studentship (to be able to [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
PhD Funding Blues
Learning to Fly.
Part 2 to Getting The Plane Off The Ground
Where the story left off a few days ago I had just left my family at the airport and was making my way back to Tanzania. I had carried all the things I thought I would need to continue my life in Tanzania with me in [...]
Iran, Football and Human Rights
Crime: Men playing against Women
Last week in Tehran, Iran had its first mixed sex football match in over 30 years (since the Islamic Revolution). It was a friendly match of men against women. The game took place on January 20th between the Esteghlal soccer club’s male youth team and female youth team.
For many of us [...]
Getting The Plane Off The Ground
Hurting the People we Love
As the days draw close when I will be leaving my much beloved home, Iffley Heights and venturing to Rose Hill I have become aware of how I have hurt many of the people I love because I have not communicated clearly why I am moving and for how long. The [...]
Up a Mountain, Without a Bus
Do I have “Thrill Issues”?
Yesterday’s post on confirmation got me thinking about all the wonderful things that have happened to me in my life right moments after bad things have happened. One of the words that has been used to describe me is “accident prone” or “girl with thrill issues” both of these implying that [...]