Word: kieran
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When the meeting in Japan did finally happen, only three could make it. The day that Kieran and Sam were waiting to buy train tickets in Moscow, Sam learned that a close friend’s father had died. He returned home for the funeral, leaving Kieran to travel through Siberia alone to meet their roommates...
...four-day trip through Siberia, Kieran befriended a German backpacker going to work with children in Mongolia and managed to escape from a man he believed to be a member of the Russian mob. He then boarded a train to Mongolia, followed by a 35-hour bus ride through the Gobi desert to Beijing. In this bus, which Kieran describes as the “modern equivalent of a slave galley,” the passengers lay in four-level bunks. They slept with their hands shielding their faces to keep their noses from slamming against the higher bunk when...
...just find that you’re a different person when you’re not here,” Kieran says, gesturing from his seat on the Quincy balcony to the surrounding campus. “Certain parts of you are just more accessible, more alive...
Justin hopes to become politically active in his home state of California. Daniel will pursue a degree in human rights at the London School of Economics next year, planning to become a human rights lawyer. In the short run, Kieran will travel to Arizona and New Mexico to write short stories based on Native American folk tales, and wants eventually to be involved in cinema or writing. Anthony will continue to work in theater and film. Sam wants to travel the globe as a documentary filmmaker. Nick will continue on to graduate school to nourish his love of East Asian...
...think of our room as four different married couples that have been constantly changing, with divorces, and bitterness,” Kieran says...