I’m at the halfway point in the semester where I’m feeling a lot of things about my abroad trip. Aix has become a home to me – not to the same extent as my home home, but enough of a home where I can crave my bed even whilst gallivanting around metropolitan Scotland. I’m happy to…
Month: November 2016
Blog Post 11/2
These past two weeks have been filled with excitement and interesting sights. My classes have been teeming with interesting content and hands-on activities that have truly enhanced my experience here in London. In my “London Across Literature” Class, we have been reading a book titled “The Buddha of Suburbia.” This text narrates the story of…
Cinque Terre, Prague, and Amsterdam
Ciao! I needed a vacation from my vacation during Fall break. Tuesday morning we left for Cinque Terre at 6 am and arrived at 10. We spent the day there hiking and enjoying the view and eating lots of food. We bought a hostel only to sleep for 5 hours and then leave and 4…
Return from Fall Break
Happy Election Day! I’m over in France, terrified about the state of the world in the next twelve hours, as is every other study abroad student at my school. What a way to celebrate. Let’s not think about that. In other news, I have just returned from Fall Break, a ten day pause in life…
A Native Floridian’s First Snowfall
Yesterday, I saw snow for the first time that wasn’t the fake soap kind Orlando theme parks like to use for effect. As you can imagine having never lived outside of Florida, I became overly excited when it happened. At first, I was confused and thought to myself, “Okay, this is either really tiny hail…
Is it really the second half of the semester?
Hello hello!!! Sorry for not posting last week, it was CAPA’s break week so I didn’t really pay that much attention to my computer since I went to the Netherlands for a week! I know you guys have fall break at Rollins way earlier than us, but our break week just ended, remarking that we…
Island Time
If we are being honest, I have started to watch Lost on Netflix so when I decided to go to the island of Mallorca I was just hoping it would not be the same experience. Thankfully Mallorca, Spain was a beautifully peaceful island complete with white sandy beaches, an interesting history, and loads of adventure…