Last week was my fall break. It’s called “study week” here at Maynooth, but even the professors aren’t fooled into thinking that the students are doing much studying at all. I had been planning to head to Rome to visit Elexsa, Paula and Andrea studying there this semester. Needless to say, I ate a ridiculous amount…
Month: November 2016
Beginning our tour of Italy!
The past two weeks have been more academic than entertaining for me. I had one of my first assignments due last week, which is weird since we are practically halfway through the term at this point. Coming into the program, the professors who gave speeches during orientation told us that the workload might be difficult…
Spain Study Abroad Update
So this last two weeks I have explored to Ribadesella, Spain and Brussels and Amsterdam! Ribadesella was a trip I took through Rollins and it was absolutely beautiful. It is almost hard to believe how beautiful some of these places are that are practically in my backyard. My twin and I ventured to Brussels and…
Madrid and Toledo
These past two weeks I spent traveling to Madrid and Toledo. Before my travels, I was unfortunate enough to get sick and spent almost a week trying to recover. By the time I got to Madrid, I met up with friends and made sure to get plenty of sleep that night so I would recover…
Well, That Was Expensive…
I haven’t processed the past few weeks yet. It has been a mixture of stress and exhaustion with a little elation and fun thrown in. I have past the half way point, which, at certain times, I felt was never going to come. And now, we’re finishing our last night in Dubai for our international…
I’m Only Here for the Free Food
An awesome part about the Alliance program in Shanghai is that they allocate money for weekly Language Tables. Language Table is a time where your Chinese class meets up to eat food and practice Chinese. Our budget is 30 RMB for person which is more than a fair amount for a meal. For language table,…
Spring Breakin’ for Fall Break Pt. 2
Quick recap: National Holiday is celebrated October 1-7 (Saturday – Friday). My friends and I decided to start our trip on Thursday and Headed to Hainan, China’s most southern and beautiful island. We spend Friday at Mission Hills Resort where we relaxed in 168 cold and hot springs and underwent a bunch of Chinese healing….
There’s A Club for That??
I’d like to start pf Here in Shanghai, we are enrolled as students at the Shanghai University to Finance and Economics (S.U.F.E. ). Therefore, we have the same rights as the Chinese students that attend this school full time. This week, S.U.F.E. had an event in which all the different clubs and sports would…
Spring Breakin’ for Fall Break Pt. 1
All over China, National Holiday is celebrated from October 1-7 (Saturday through Sunday). Now, I’m not sure why they have National Holiday, but I do know that it’s a week of no work (for the most part) and no school. So for me, it’s like fall break. For national holiday, three friends and I decided…
Twincation
I was lucky enough to spend the last week visiting Brussels and Amsterdam with my twin. When I read about Brussels, I now know they are not kidding about your diet being waffles, fries, and chocolate. In the past week, I probably consumed about 7 waffles. Brussels had an abundance of chocolate shops that were…