This past week, our group flew in an 18 seater Polynesian Airlines plane to American Samoa. Going in to another home stay, I was hesitant thinking there was no way I would get so lucky with my families twice in a row. I, once again, was in for a wonderful surprise. We were greeted by…
Reunited (with America) and it feels so good!
Today is my official two month anniversary in Samoa. It’s unbelievable to me that I have been on this tiny, beautiful island for eight weeks now. We were able to visit American Samoa for a week and to think that months ago I couldn’t point out American Samoa on a map is appalling. American Samoa…
Exploring Jerusalem
Living in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem feels like its a world away. Especially with all of the current violence, its hard to remember how close the holy city really is. Before all of the recent chaos began, I took a 45 minute bus ride to Jerusalem and stayed at a hostel for a few days to…
Checking Innnn
Amazingly enough, this month has been just as eventful as my first here in Europe! In addition to beginning classes at the local university we have continued our travels to cities both local and abroad. We kick started October with a visit to the beautiful city of London. With this being my first time visiting…
Observations
Since being in Rome, I’ve noticed a few things about this beautiful city that they don’t mention to you in The Lizzie McGuire Movie. After having been here for about a month and a half, I had kind of begun to assume that I knew my way around and felt comfortable that I knew a…
This is what dreams are made of
October has been great to me so far. I can finally tick going to Oktoberfest off my bucket list!!! It was without a doubt one of the best weekends of my life! I had never been to Germany and although it was only for the weekend, we got to experience a lot of it. On…
Into the English Countryside
Despite using my previous post to tout the virtues of staying in London, I am as guilty as anyone else of using my weekend to take day-trips to explore England. Nothing is quite as relaxing as napping on a tour bus while taking a two-hour journey out of the city. One of the benefits of…
No one is clean in war
I hear a lot of things about Kosovo, living in Serbia. I hear that it is the heart of Serbia, that Serbia is nothing without it. I hear that the people who live there have pushed the Serbs out, that America is to blame because of that. I knew that what once was a province…
Weekend in Istanbul
Yes, you read that right. This past weekend, my best friend and I made a quick stop in Istanbul, Turkey. It would have never crossed my mind to experience this wonderful place, but there are absolutely no regrets in going. The week leading up to the trip had been very stressful and trying. I had lost some…
October pt. I
First half of Octobre came and went pretty fast. In one week I’ll have finished mid-terms and be outward bound for Paris and Rome and more Paris.. fall break. I wonder what I would’ve done for fall break at Rollins, were I back home. I wonder what everyone else did. I can’t remember what I…