Ah yes, the time has come for the final blog post. Unfortunately, it’s come much sooner than we all expected due to COVID-19. Still, my time abroad has added value to my life, and I’m thankful for the time I had. Reading back on my original post, I realize some things were as I expected,…
Month: April 2020
Rome, I’ll Be Back… I Promise
I can say, without a doubt in my mind, that I had the best time in Rome, Italy. It got cut super short and although I was only there for a month and a half, I had the best experience I would have loved to try more food, see more soccer games, visit more places,…
Final Blog Post
This semester was definitely full of high highs and low lows. As we all know, the semester was cut very short due to Covid-19. I feel very fortunate that CAPA London began in early January so I was able to get in much more time abroad than friends from other programs with later start dates….
Final Blog Post
The day I found out the program was cancelled, I wasn’t even in Italy. My friend and I would travel every weekend to experience the most we can. At the time we were in London having the time of our lives. It was so crazy because we were talking over dinner about how if the…
Back to the U.S.
I can not help to feel frustrated with the crisis the world is facing right now. My semester was cut too short and we are all close to helpless in trying to rectify the situation. In my first post, I wrote about how I found that I did not have enough time to say goodbye…
Goodbye for now, London
Leaving London felt like I was leaving a second home, I truly felt like I became a Londoner within such a short time. I was going to work four days a week and taking three long classes and now I’m doing it all from home. It’s bittersweet to be back, I definitely missed the warmer…
In the face of a pandemic
In all honesty, I have put off writing this final blog post because doing so brings a finality to this whole experience. It takes away the slightest hope that perhaps we will receive notice that we can return back to Rome. Even though that may be far from the truth, this final post is a…
A reflection from back home
On the 15th of February, I left America and made the seven hour plane ride to Iceland. Exactly a month later, on the 15th of March, I was back at my house in Colorado. While I was only gone for a month, I had the opportunity to experience many different things in both Iceland and…
Final Blog Post
Although my experience was cut short, I still had an amazing and eye opening experience in London and traveling around Europe. My original fear of being away from home for so long ended up not being much of a challenge, I did miss my family and friends but the experience was so enriching that I…
Back home from Ireland
The most important lesson I learned abroad was to be open to change. Not only was I living in a new place with new faces adapting to cold weather and shopping isles without mac and cheese and ranch dressing, but I had to be open to the possibility of returning home due to COVID-19. It…