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Melanie Kohls

Hwyl fawr, Wales

Posted on July 28, 2016

(I started writing this two weeks before I left for home.  I could retrofit all the verbs to past tense now that I’m back, but I think I like it as-is.) Well, I’m all packed …

Posted in Europe, Melanie Kohls, Returned Student, Spring 2016, WalesTagged Cardiff, International Academic Programs, Melanie Kohls, study abroad, Wales

Dw i’n caru y coffi yma: I love the coffee here

Posted on July 5, 2016

I know you’ve all been on the edge of your seats wondering which of Cardiff’s coffee shops are my all-time favorites.  Sorry about that!  My flight home, the one date I’ve had circled on my …

Posted in Europe, Melanie Kohls, Returned Student, Spring 2016, WalesTagged Cardiff, International Academic Programs, Melanie Kohls, study abroad, UW-madison, Wales

Exit Interview: the Cardiff Experience (Part 2)

Posted on June 14, 2016

[after six weeks of exams and traveling we’re picking up where we left off.] Gwyneth/Sioned: Did you change your hair or something?  You look…different. Me: *wearing dark glasses and a beret, waving a cigarette around …

Posted in Europe, Melanie Kohls, Returned Student, Spring 2016, WalesTagged Cardiff, International Academic Programs, Melanie Kohls, study abroad, UW-madison, Wales

Dwi’n hoffi y coffi yma: I like the coffee here

Posted on May 9, 2016

“Today I write part two of my Cardiff Uni reflections” is a sentence I probably said to myself this morning.  But I’ve been sitting here for an hour and I can’t stop ranking Cardiff’s cafes …

Posted in Europe, Melanie Kohls, Returned Student, Spring 2016, WalesTagged Cardiff, coffee, International Academic Programs, Melanie Kohls, study abroad, UW-madison, Wales

Exit Interview: the Cardiff Experience (Part 1)

Posted on April 28, 2016

For someone who’s been studying abroad since January, I haven’t blogged much about studying, have I?  Not because I haven’t been studying, Mom.  Just because big concepts like “academic experience” and “day-to-day life” are things …

Posted in Europe, Melanie Kohls, Returned Student, Spring 2016, WalesTagged Cardiff, International Academic Programs, Melanie Kohls, study abroad, UW-madison, Wales1 Comment

26,220 words* on Oxford

Posted on March 23, 2016

Cardiff University takes very good care of its international students. A student-led club called “Give It a Go” sponsors cheap trips to various locales of interest near and far. My friends and I have been …

Posted in Europe, Melanie Kohls, Returned Student, Spring 2016, WalesTagged Cardiff, International Academic Programs, Melanie Kohls, study abroad, UW-madison, Wales

Ogmore-by-Sea

Posted on February 29, 2016

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in. – Sharon Creech, The Wanderer Come in, said the Celtic Sea; specifically, the Bristol Channel. …

Posted in Europe, Melanie Kohls, Returned Student, Spring 2016, WalesTagged Cardiff, International Academic Programs, Melanie Kohls, study abroad, UW-madison, Wales

Castle #1: Castell Caerdydd

Posted on February 22, 2016

I managed to go an entire week in Cardiff before exploring my first castle, though without the jet lag it would’ve probably happened much sooner. At any rate, on the first weekend after my arrival …

Posted in Europe, Melanie Kohls, Returned Student, Spring 2016, WalesTagged Cardiff, castle, International Academic Programs, Melanie Kohls, study abroad, UW-madison, Wales5 Comments

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