Reading the title of this post may confuse some of you. Why would I write a post of living in Athens this late into the semester? If i haven’t been living in Athens, then where? My first post here was titled “Living in History” and re-reading it I feel girlish, giddy almost, at how much I only…
Post-Arrival: Back Home
It’s been a week since I returned home, despite my apparent efforts to sabotage my doing so. I started packing up my room and saying my goodbyes about a week in advance, making sure I would have time to get everything done before I had to leave. That week was a bittersweet one, as all…
Germany and Wrapping Up
Just as I said last time, where has the time gone? Three months went by in the blink of an eye, but at the same time I feel like it’s been so long. I’m comfortable in my little corner of east London and so accustomed to the local grocery shops and surroundings. I’m so used to…
Coming Home from Australia
Writing this last blog post is pretty bittersweet, because I am now home and while I already miss Australia, the places I visited and people that I met and became friends with, I am also incredibly relieved and excited to be home with my friends and family for the holidays. I had such a great…
The Final Stretch
I have completed my last full month abroad and only have 11 day left, as of today, in Rome. It is crazy to look back and realize how fast this semester has gone by. Usually for me personally, the fall semester is always really slow and not as exciting as the spring semester. However, this…
Christmas Time is Here…
And it’s almost time to head home. As of today, I have thirteen days left in London. I can’t quite wrap my head around it, and when I try, I dance back and forth erratically between excitement and sadness. I can’t wait to see my family, my friends, Rollins, my pets, the beach…but I dread…
Indonesia, you forever will have my heart!
This is my post-reflection blog post after my study abroad in Bali and Java in Indonesia. The program was cut shorts about 2 weeks because of Mt. Agung (volcano) erupting in Bali (sad, sad). I am still trying to process these last few months for me. The best words to describe them (although I can…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Part 2
Okay, so I will admit I was being a bit dramatic with that title (and with what I originally wrote to post for part 2). You know how at least once a semester you have a breakdown because you think you’re going to fail all of your classes, and then no one will ever hire…
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…
Appreciative of this Experience
Here we are. It is hard to believe, but it has come down to the final few weeks of my time abroad. In other words, exams are rapidly approaching and my work load is exponentially increasing, given how light my work load was earlier in the semester. Yet I certainly have enjoyed my time here,…