Most people believe that study abroad is just a way to skip the hard school work and relax. It’s the common expectation you know. You just want to be able to travel, and meet new people, learn about new cultures. You create this idea in your mind that it will all be easier because it…
Month: November 2017
Traveling the arctic
I am fortunate to be on a program that is saturated in travel, encouraging a hands on learning approach! I mentioned this in my last post, but I did not get to mention all the incredible places we have been as I focused on my homestay… We started off the program with two weeks in…
For Promised Joy
Only just more than 40 days until I go home. Is it strange, how entirely I miss it, how lonesome I have become? Granted, my isolation is not perfect; there are friends here, and at home, who have gone out of their way to be kind and supportive, yet this is not enough. The trouble…
Happy First Day of School!
Happy first day of class! Well, I guess that it’s more like happy midterms at Rollins. For me, the first day of class was just a week ago. The Israeli semester runs from October to January, because it starts after the Jewish new year! This is good because it meant I had a 5-week fall…
Thoughts from a Cafe
As I’m typing this entry, sitting in a cafe in Paris, it’s hard to believe it’s already halfway through my semester here! As the time is coming to a close, I find myself wishing that I could stay for the rest of the year. I find that the pace of life here is much more…
Parents and Paris
I’m already halfway through with this semester?? Where in the world is the time going? October brought about some visitors for me. First, a friend of mine living in Germany who came to enjoy the city for a weekend, and secondly, my parents! My parents took ten days off of their normally scheduled lives to…