Hello! My name is Sarah — a MFA candidate in the Boston University Creative Writing program. I’ve created this blog to document my travels through Greece and Israel on the 2019 Global Fellowship!

Most of the content on this blog will be posted after-the-fact, since I preferred to keep a written journal during my travels. But now I’m hoping to share some of my journal in a curated, highly-censored-and-angonized-over travel blog.

I haven’t blogged since my angsty teenage tumblr days. Even then, that consisted mostly of reposting “relatable” content—whatever cheesy quote or romantic gif reflected my mood that day. I never really wrote much of my own content….I couldn’t take myself seriously enough to write about the minor inconveniences of my life. There was always a terrible self-awareness of my own melodrama, a existential fear of falling into cliches. Somehow I got over that, and ended up taking myself so seriously I got an MFA in poetry. But for some reason, getting my MFA in writing hasn’t made the idea of travel blog writing any easier. In fact, it seems even more self-indulgent than poetry.

A lot of people travel nowadays, so what makes my daily account of traveling anything interesting? Should I be writing critical detailed reports of the hostels I stay at? Or researching the history of an archeological site on Wikipedia and copy and pasting it here? Or talking about the ups and downs of solo travel and how I’ve finally ~found~ myself in the turquoise beaches of Greece. I’ll try to avoid these approaches.

Instead, I hope to share a bit about what captures my interest in each place, and what I’m thinking about. Sometimes that might take the form of a diary entry…a regression into my angsty middle-school blogger self. Other times, maybe, possibly, I might share a poem? Equally melodramatic, don’t worry.