I returned to Bologna with Future’s new album rattling through my earbuds, feeling like a boss. The plane made its last decent and I coasted along the city’s red roofs and medieval towers framed by …
year abroad
The End of the Beginning
By mid-December in Bologna the air is grey and wet and cold. The humid wind digs into my bones and I cannot escape the chill of the coming winter. The rain turned cold and falls …
Snow Falls on Éire
In Wisconsin, we are well acquainted with the snow. However, in Ireland, snow isn’t a big part of life in the winter. The area around the west of Ireland sees less then ten days of …
A Weekend Adventure
The best part of being a history and archaeology buff in Ireland, is the opportunity to explore its past through the landscape. One weekend, my housemates, my sister, and I jumped in a car and …
New School, New Challenges
Here I am, the start of a new schoolyear… and a new school. Finding your way in a new place can be riveting if not a little terrifying. The first week in Galway, I found …
Summer Adventures: Part III
On a very rainy day my last few days on Achill Island, my mom and sister met me at my little home on the edge of the world. They were tired, but had the same …
Summer Adventures: Part II
From the very beginning, I fell in love with Achill Island. One of my first days at the Achill Field School, we took a hike through the bog to Slievemore, where we visited the Deserted …
Summer Adventures: Part I
I cannot believe that I am just days away from my first day of school at NUI-Galway. It seems to have snuck up on me with all I had going on this summer. I finished …
Study Abroad: Take Two
Well here I am again, on the cusp of my next adventure. At the end of June, I fly back across the Atlantic again to study in Ireland. Even though I will be studying in …
A Typical Schoolday
Believe it or not, studying abroad is a lot more than just going to a few classes here and there and then sprinting off to new destinations every weekend. While I have been lucky enough …