Stateside Stories: Reflections on my summer in the US- Part 1
Hey Y'all, As the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic rage on and the Black Lives Matter movement fights for racial equality in the face of police brutality and racism in the US and around the world, I decided that it was time to write a different kind of piece and reflect on less turbulent times. This time last year, I was in the US myself, just a few weeks into my trip having visited Boston and New York before heading to Honesdale, Pennsylvania where I'd be working at summer camp for 10 weeks followed by a month's worth of travel around the country afterwards. More or less since I started playing, I knew I wanted to go and play and experience US quidditch for myself someday and having done one summer of camp in the US back in 2014, I also knew that I wanted to return and do another summer at some point so this seemed like as good a time as any to satisfy those two desires. Like when watching match footage, I also enjoy travelling to different countries for quidditch to