I can feel the weather beginning to change in Hirakata City. The days are still nice and warm, all clear skies and sunshine, but most days of the week I bike home after-dark because of how late my schedule goes, so I’ve begun to notice the chill that’s started to settle here. With the help…
The French Way
Coming to a close to my third/ fourth week in Aix-en-Provence. I still think I’m in a haze. It doesn’t really feel as if I am here, I just feel as if I am going to college in a different state and in this state they just don’t exactly speak English. As a result of…
Oktober is here
My first week has ended, and I could not believe how many different classes I had attended. I decided to reward myself by going to Oktoberfest in Munich this weekend, and it was a blur of culture and relief seeing familiar faces. I met up with other Rollins students and we got stayed at an…
October Approaching
October is coming soon which means my birthday is coming up. I do not have any plans to go anywhere for spring break so I will probably just continue to explore Sydney. I really want to make it to the blue mountains and I want to go on the Coogee to Bondi beach walk. I think…
Down the Rabbit Hole
London, with its magical Underground that whisks you off from station to station, is more akin to a microcosm than just a city. Considering that a third of its 8.5 million population was born overseas, the city represents a merging of languages, cultures, cuisines, and arts that has no parallel within the country, and very few…
“Living on the Pedacial”
Monday morning. Nine AM. I’m sitting for my first lecture. Of course, it’s not just my first lecture. It’s the lecture. The first sociology module I saw on Maynooth’s course offerings page that made me think, “Yeah. This is probably the one.” “Marx on Ireland.” A class designed to examine colonization as a social process…
Spain ✓
My first month in Spain has been insanely eventful. Not only have we started and finished our intensive review of Spanish at CBCE but we have experienced Oviedo’s annual weeklong celebration by the name of San Mateo and have done a good bit of traveling as well. The review of Spanish in CBCE was extremely…
1 Month in Shanghai
An unbelievable experience it has been thus far! One can always imagine how things can be when traveling abroad, but I must state how out of the ordinary my experiences have been in comparison to my expectations coming here to Shanghai. To begin with, the 1st three days are going to be the epic-center of…
It is still so surreal to be here. I am settling in, getting used to the work and class routine, using the tube stations, etc. I am very comfortable and feel confident in what I am doing. The adjustment period has confirmed things about myself that I already knew (routine and rhythm), but it also…
Time Flies
I can hardly believe that I’ve already been here for three weeks. I suppose when I sit down and think about everything I’ve done I can understand how in just one week my first month will be over, but in the whirlwind of all things London, it doesn’t feel like three weeks at all. I…