After nearly 5 months, I am on my flight home to the good ol’ US of A. I didn’t get a chance to post much during the end of my experience 🙁 but after studying …
return to US
Dreaming in Italian
I had a dream I went to Italy and I lived there for a year. I left behind my city and everyone I knew, looking a change in a life that felt the same. I …
Bella, Act 3
Note: What follows is a work of fiction. While the characters in the story- including I, Pier, the narrator- are inspired by real life, their existence is bounded by the of the limits of the …
Getting Back to the New Normal
It has been well over a month since I returned to the states from my semester studying abroad in Ireland and then traveling for three weeks post my program ending. During that time a lot …
From Wales to Wisconsin in One Week
Ever since I started my experience I abroad, I denied the inevitability of the dreaded goodbye and reflection post that most people who study abroad have to face and write (for my case). I remember …
I promised myself I wouldn’t cry
Before leaving and after getting there, the program taught us something that kind of looks like a roller coaster. It was a chart of emotions and feelings students generally experience when going abroad. It started …
Readjustment
The following post will deal with 2 periods of readjustment: the first regarding school, and the second regarding the US. The first was probably far more difficult. I had just returned from Dublin when I …
都中文(All Chinese)
上海 Blog #33 二零一五年六月二十二号星期一 Monday June 22nd, 2015 Local Time: 10:30 Shanghai Time 我答应了我的美国朋友，我会写中文的博客的帖子。我现在在尝试。我希望我没有犯太多的错误。因为我们今天要回美国，所以我很伤心,很愁绪。虽然我想念我的美国朋友和家人，但是我也会想念上海和我的中国朋友们。我在中国参观了这么多地方比如苏州，茅山，杭州。此外，我遇到了这么多人，比如翟老师，马老师，邵老师, 梅老师，张老师,许悦,Arber, Barbra, Knox,还有其他人。他们都告诉了我一些上海的事情，并且帮了我练习了中文。我想同他们保持联系。我希望那是我们的缘分。我将要飞行十三个小时. 这太糟了！上海再见，我还会回来。现在，告别对我来说很难。 I promised my American friend that I would write a blog post in Chinese. I’m now trying …
Tips for future #badgersabroad
As I flew into the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport three weeks ago, at the end of a three-flight/22-hour journey, I felt like I was flying into a jungle. I was so used to the brown and …
Dear London
It’s hard to describe the feeling of leaving this place. There are a thousand emotions I’m feeling and as I sit in Heathrow waiting to board my plane, I’m trying to not feel them all. …