If you’d asked me a few months ago what I was most looking forward to in New Zealand, it would have been finding Lorde and becoming best friends with her. However, she’s touring. In the US. She’ll be in Portland, while I’m in New Zealand, on my birthday. And she’ll be in my hometown several […]

I am really looking forward to seeing Abel Tasman National Park, where the sun should be shining and hot! I am excited to escape the Portland rain and discover new sunny land across the world!

Today I realized that the big day is only about two months away. I’m super pumped to take pictures of nature. As you can see from the attached jpeg, I am a passionate nature photographer. This is a picture I took near Yosemite of the sunset catching some air over the mountains. In the foreground is […]

I am currently working on gathering context and a deeper understanding of New Zealand’s indigenous land rights and management systems before I head over to that side of the world (in t-minus 2 months!). Here is the compilation of this semester’s research.