It’s been 2 weeks in Holland and I love it!! I’m learning so much about their culture and how different it is from America. The most common way to get around is on bike. hardly anyone has a car and if they do they don’t use it that much. I live in the city center…
Category: SIT Study Abroad
Last day home
it’s crazy, to think that in less than 24 hours I will begin a journey I have long dreamed of. My parents have wondered what it is about the Middle East that has fascinated me for so long, and to be honest I don’t have a good answer for them. Maybe going to Jordan will…
Leaving for Amsterdam in 1 week!!
Only one more week and I’m off to the Netherlands! This is my first time ever traveling outside the US and I couldn’t be more excited! The biggest thing I’m looking forward to is being able to call a new city my home and getting to meet Dutch people. I’m very curious to see what…
Home sweet Home
It’s been two weeks since I left Nepal. I sat on a plane for 5 hours then hopped back on another plane for another 14 hour flight, which was sort of awful because the guy next to me kept cuddling on my shoulder like we were friends…. But I made it through. As soon as…
Black Money
My last night in Nepal, it’s crazy how the semester has already gone by so fast. I have cried, adapted to my new environment, made friends, traveled on often unsafe mountain flights, and have fought the crazy amount of foreign insects in South India. During my ISP period I made some very close friendships, and…
A new family friend
The other night I was in my sleeping bag, texting my friends back at Rollins. It was about 11 at night and I started to hear lots of noises by my giant pile of stuff in the corner of my room. I got wide eyed, and well my hands started to sweat but that could…
A Week in Kopan Nunnery: My first ESL teaching experience
So yes there was a goat in my classroom. His name I believe is Tenzin, a popular Tibetan name. Here at Kopan Nunnery studies are taken very seriously. Everyday they wake up at 4:45 AM for their 5 o’clock Puja where they chant for two hours. Then at 7 am they have breakfast together, which…
Bylakuppe Adventure to South India
Bylakuppe: We left for Bylakuppe on the 12th which was a very long travel day. Knowing I had a presentation coming up in Bylakuppe, I spent the morning trying to do research, but just being part of a generation who has been spoiled with fast internet… I wanted to rip my hair out trying to…
Happy Losar
Night one of Losar ( the Tibetan New Year) was very peaceful and made me realize how materialistic our holidays are. We started the night by some of my family’s friends coming over and I played with the kids just like I do Christmas Eve at home. I helped my ama-la and aunt prepare the…