I wish I could say CAPA had been a fun experience. In fact, I wish I had one single compliment to bestow upon CAPA, so that this post didn’t come off as angry rants, but the fact is I have been trying since the day I came home to write a post in which CAPA…
Author: jlasman@rollins.edu
More Things Than Are Dreamt of
This is it, the home stretch. Classes are ending, finals are being undertaken, bags packed, and the nauseating whorl collapses inward as I try to make sense of it all. Make no mistake, London’s been a blast. I’ve lived, learned, and loved in the shadows of so much history. The city itself overwhelms, but there…
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…
London Town
A month abroad already!!! To be honest, the entire experience is still most surreal. It’s been something of a struggle, to find myself in a place so unfamiliar, and to have such an unpleasant time-difference between myself and my loved ones, but overall the experience is proving quite positive. I don’t know why I didn’t…
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself”
So. I suppose this is the post where I’d say, “it begins,” were I the sort of person who believed in things having strict beginnings or endings. This is certainly—in a chronological sense—my first post, and undoubtedly, I will experience any number of new things during my semester abroad, any number of “firsts”, and in…