Ok, I’m just going to fast forward through the apologies for not posting for another two weeks. I’m sorry. I honestly don’t know where time goes while I’m here. Regardless, a lot has happened in …
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why why why
Why go abroad? Why leave Madison? Why go to Netherlands? My answers to the previous questions are not intuitive or traditional. My ancestry has no ties to the Netherlands. My previous European travels have never …
A Little Bump
“I just miss Madison, I want to go back.” I must’ve said that over 20 times since I arrived in France. How to describe my first week in France? Well, I’ve had better days. From …
Taller de Teatro
One of the absolute best decisions I have made during my year abroad in Argentina was signing up for an extra-curricular, weekly theater improvisation class. In early March, I had a meeting with my program …
To Travel is to Live
It’s the last few days of December and most people are thinking about all the things they didn’t do this year. The forgotten resolutions and weight that wasn’t lost. Not me. I’m sitting on the …
An Auspicious Beginning
If you had told me even two years that I would be spending my junior year of college living in India, I would’ve shaken my head. When I finished my exchange year in high school …
Off to China!
In just two weeks, I will be on my journey to Tianjin, China. It is amazing how fast this semester flew by, and that it is already the last week of classes and finals. Luckily, …
Sochi: A Whole New Russia
Reflection. Sometimes it is so incredibly hard to reflect. I just got off a 42 hour train ride from Sochi to Saint Petersburg, and I’m having a difficult time summing up the glorious, stressful, wonderful, …
You Know What Japan, That’s Pretty Awesome
Being in Japan now for half a year, I’ve experienced many “things” for which I wanted to pat Japan on the back for. I mean I’ve ranted in many blogs about the awesomeness of izakayas …
Parents and Pepperoni
The last two weeks have been marked by the presence of my parents, who took a little time off of their stressful lives to visit me in France. Their visit also happened to align with …