I didn’t understand the “international family” of Rollins until I came to Hong Kong this semester. Now, I not only understand it, but also deeply appreciate it. Upon my arrival, Kathy, the local Hong Kong showed up at the airport and accompanied me to Hong Kong Baptist University. She was a former HKBU student and…
The China Art Palace
The China Art Museum Finding the place was a struggle in itself. We started by taking the train line 10 out to line 8 where we began our journey to Peoples Park. Once we got above ground the park was beautiful. There were tons of people and we managed to find a nice looking art…
Queensland!
During our holiday at the beginning of October, I was fortunate enough to be invited by a friend that I have made here on road trip to her house in the Gold Coast. I have never done a long road trip so I was really excited. I also thought this would be a perfect way…
October :)
I have done a bunch so far in October!! I went to the National Rugby League final and my good friend Tiffany and I were the ONLY ones from TEAN who stayed the full game. You learn in baseball to ALWAYS wait/ have faith up to the very last inning! So we kept cheering for…
September part 2
I’ve done quite a bit since my last post!! This entry will be dedicated to September. I went to an opera at the Sydney Opera House (of course) called the Marriage of Figaro. It was fully in Italian which made it slightly difficult to follow, but I still managed to stay until the end. It…
Last Week of October
This month has been crazy. First of all, fashion is officially over – and as someone interested in fashion who also plans to work in the industry, plus being in Paris for the holy grail of weeks out of the year, it was a lot to keep up with. The internship I have hear was…
October Week 1
The first week of October has been very interesting. I’m starting to get a very good feel for all of my classes and how to handle the fact that they’re entirely in French. My Impressionism course would be too easy if it were in English, but the French art vocabulary is something I do not…
Conundrum
(Pictured: Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina) This week we lead an excursion to Bosnia and Herzegovina. A land that just a short 20 years ago experienced a war so horrific, and terrors that haven’t been seen on European soil since World War II. While the stay in the two cities of Sarajevo,…
Non-existing existence
(Newborn references the new nation of Kosovo, interesting to note it is written in English) Two weeks ago we went to Kosovo. A territory very contested in terms of sovereignty. At it stands as of current, 111 countries of the 193 United Nations members (A little over 55%). Among the countries that do not recognize…
Ciao Ciao!
Hello readers! Cooler weather is finally arriving! It finally seems like the days of dripping sweat on a daily basis and getting eaten alive by mosquitos are almost to an end. Midterms are also coming up (not as pumped for this like the new weather), so things are staying pretty quiet and focused until we…