I’ve officially been stateside two weeks and as the initial excitement of going to Culver’s whenever I wanted (which was often those first few days) has worn off I am more and more nostalgic as …
Cassidy Sandoval
Update
I left my program in France a little over two weeks ago and although traveling with my brother and friends in the mean time has cushioned my departure it’s still a tough adjustment to make. …
Post Program Limbo
I’m still in shock that my program is over. I took exams, which were only just a little bit nightmarish. That week and the week leading up to it I had no appetite, spent way …
18 weeks down, 1 to go (NO!!!)
I, along with many other students’ abroad, am having somewhat of a crisis realizing that the end of the semester is in sight. At the beginning of the semester I made a list of my …
Easter Break
Over our Easter/Spring break I got to check the number 1 destination off of my bucket list- Greece! One other girl from my program and I hopped on our favorite, cheap airline, RyanAir en route …
On being old and growing up and everything in between
Living with an 83 year old teaches you a lot about what it means to be patient and move a little slower. I feel like I am always planning, always looking forward, always rushing. I’m …
Mom
I cannot even begin to explain what it was like to have my mom in France for her spring break. We met in Paris and I practically ran from the train station to the hotel …
Blog
As the days tick by and I’m coming to terms that I wont be studying abroad forever, I can’t help but think about Aix and Josette and my experience thus far as a whole. Although, …
Winter Break
Although studying abroad itself can sometimes feel like a vacation this past week we had a real, 10 day long, “winter break” (my second one this year!). (I put that in quotes because it definitely …
Nice
This past weekend a handful of kids from my program here in Aix and I ventured two hours further southeast (nearly to Italy!) to a picturesque city named Nice (pronounced “Neece”). We were particularly drawn …