My birthday was this week!! Oh gosh did a lot happen. First, my best friend here, Tiffany, showed up at my house as two sets of flowers arrived from my family from home AND my friend from home, Aaron. She started screaming and singing to me “happy birthday” and put a crown and a “21”…
Surf Camp Australia
This weekend was Surf Camp Australia. I was originally set to go with the University of Sydney’s group, but I chose to change my weekend so I could branch out and meet other people. My friend from Germany, Freddie, happened to be there the same weekend! We immediately started making friends with other surfers. We…
Armando Abroad: Weekend Adventures
Since we are in the capstone phase of our program here, each one of us is on our own, conducting independent research. We make our own schedule and go to the SIT HQ only when we need or want to. It sounds amazing, but amongst scheduling (and likely rescheduling) interviews, pouring through literature, and analyzing…
Back in Sarajevo
I’m back in Sarajevo. It’s ISP month which means its our four week period of independent research. We were given the option of studying in Bosnia, Kosovo or Serbia and I found myself pulled back to the city in the mountains. When I packed my bags to leave Belgrade I cried, torn at leaving my…
Christmas is in the AIR my friends
The streets and city of London are decorated to perfection during this special time of year. Now I believe everyone who told me “just wait until Christmas time-London is the most beautiful place to be!” In Hyde Park, there is an amusement park just for the holidays called Winter Wonderland. There’s an ice rink, ice…
Fall Break Fun
What’s up guys, **My apologies, I typically write my blogs on the plane or in route to our next European destination, thus I never have internet upon completion. My intent it to post each blog once I come in contact with internet, but it never seems to work out that way. Anyway, here is a blog that…
Christmas is in the air
November is ending, which means that the best time of the year (Christmas) is approaching. Unfortunately, this is the first year I have not celebrated Thanksgiving. Instead, I watched the Hobbit and all of my friends snapstories of food and family. I also takes to my friends and family and just pretended that I was…
It’s a bad month to be a turkey
Salve ragazzi, So today is Friday, November 13, 2015, and in exactly 7 days my parents arrive here in Rome for the annual AUR Thanksgiving family weekend. Aside from Christmas, Thanksgiving probably places second in the running for my favorite holiday. There is just something about gathering around a large table, reminiscing about days when…
Acción de gracias
I may or may not currently be wiping tears from my cheeks as I type this post. With Thanksgiving easily being my favorite day of the year it was definitely tough not being in the states. Since the holiday is not celebrated in Spain there were literally no signs that it was actually Thanksgiving. The only…
A Tourist in My Own Town
I don’t think it would be right to post another blog without at least saying something about the occurrences in Paris and subsequently throughout the world. For me, it seems like these events have had much more of an affect on me they have the other people I surround myself with. I’m unsure as to…