After being home for around two months now, I still look on my experience abroad fondly and sincerely. I think of it as truly one of, if not the most gratifying, challenging, enlightening, and exciting times of my life. I always wanted to be someone that traveled and that had seen the world. I thought…
Author: ragoldenberg@rollins.edu
Home Again, Home Again
It is amazing to me that the past three months went by so quickly. Nothing had ever felt weirder to me than stepping off the plane in Orlando and sleeping in my own bed that night. Since getting home I have been in a constant state of reflection and awe, thinking about everything I experience…
New Beauty
Something that I always expected about traveling the world was the profound beauty waiting for me to discover. And I can wholeheartedly say that the beauty of the world has lived up to my expectations, and exceeded them. Over this past weekend I traveled to the White Cliffs of Dover with my best friend, who…
Adding Chapters to Our Memoirs
So I like to think of my day-to-day life as the personification of the outline of my future memoir. Don’t think much into it, I’m an English major so I have an excuse to be like this. I am studying in England with my best friend Catherine, and each time we gain some sort of…
Last Minute Preparation
After reading the title of this post, it should come as no surprise to you that this blog post is the very last thing I have to finish before leaving for the airport. It doesn’t surprise me either. Everyone warned me that today would come much faster than I expected, and of course I disregarded until…
London Calling
It is 9 o’clock PM on September 14th, I am sitting in my home that I have lived in since birth, it is storming outside, and I can hear my parents winding down after our day of packing and running around. My mom is beside me scrolling through photos taken at our dinner out and…