So, I know understand why the program requirement is to write a blog post every 2 weeks. It would probably be impossible to do it weekly, or every other day. So much happens in a short amount of time while we are abroad and to try to document every moment of it is implausible. I…
Category: SIT Study Abroad
Rotterdam Pride
Wow! The past couple of weeks have been so much fun with traveling and events set up by our program! This last weekend we traveled about an hour and half outside of Amsterdam to go participate in the Pride Walk of Rotterdam. I think my favorite part was seeing the difference in the architecture compared…
WOW, TIME FLIES!
Today officially marks my first week here and it has been quite a journey. I find myself saying “what is Jordan?” about 89% of the time because this place can be quite confusing. I am in the Middle East, I recognize that. It is kind of hard not to, honestly. I look, speak, act and…
Dutch Directness is Real
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…
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…