Category: Personal Essays
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Costa Rica
Day 1-2 Melissa and I touched down in Costa Rica around 10 PM, took a shuttle to the rental car facility to get our car (a Nissan Versa), paid for rental liability insurance ($300, and required by law), and we were on our way…to downtown San Jose. The drive from San Jose airport to San…
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Teeth and Tupperware
I floss every night. I didn’t do this as recently as two years ago. But then one day my dentist told me that not taking care of your gums is linked to heart disease. So now I floss. I used to leave tupperware behind. If I bought lunch in a tupperware container, that container was…
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Bali Trip
Day 1 (5/9) I woke up at around 6:45 AM to make an 11 AM flight to Qatar. I met up with my friend Jon at a bagel place near the A train, then took the hour long subway ride out to JFK. On our flight to Qatar I sat in the very last row,…
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Japan Trip
Day 1 (9/14) We fly out of JFK at 10:30 PM on Thursday, September 13 and land in L.A. around 1:30 AM on September 14. We decide to find a bar where we can waste a few hours, but everything in L.A. closes at 2 AM. We end up at a hukkah bar near LAX,…
Matthew Speiser 