The time is almost here. A few days left before i take off for a semester in London. In all honesty i couldn’t be more excited. My class schedule is perfect. Since i have two classes on Tuesday and two classes on Thursday, my weekends are completely free to explore the city and potentially do…
One Day More
Playing the song from Les Misérables seems only fitting as I write this post. I have so much excitement for this trip, and this song just builds it up even more. My name is Alexandria Crawford, I’m a junior at Rollins College, double majoring in Theatre and English. In just a little over 24 hours, I will be…
& so it begins…
Since the beginning of college I always hoped that I would get the chance to study abroad. The idea of being able to be surrounded by another culture and being able to experience living in a completely different situation intrigued me. After completing the 3 weeks abroad in Costa Rica with the Rollins program, I…
Six Weeks Till Liftoff! Overseas Correspondent: Ben Wozniak–Spring 2015
The plane tickets are purchased. The papers are being processed. Another six weeks, and then I’m off to Germany for the semester of a lifetime! Over the past few weeks, I have been making preparations for the upcoming adventure, practicing my German, and getting to know my future city of residence via Google maps. Having…
Pre departure
I’m very excited and very nervous for my upcoming study abroad trip. I’m excited because this will be a brand new experience. It will be the first time that I will be without my parents so that will be exciting, but also very scary because they are miles and miles away so if anything happens…
Preparing for Roma
Ciao! Italy is one of my favorite countries in the entire world and I couldn’t be more excited to return to this vibrant jewel of Europe. Although I have traveled to Italy before with my family and have even stayed with an Italian family during the summer of my sophomore year of high school, the…
Meet Stephanie Garcia – CAPA Blogger Spring 2015
After weeks of tracking, the long-awaited package officially arrived at my front door. I could not contain my excitement; I ripped open the seal and shook the envelope to uncover its contents. I grasped my passport and flipped frantically through the pages to get a first glimpse of my student visa. The final ingredient to…
My American Parents
Over our reading week (approximately halfway through the semester) my parents came to visit me for 12 days. While the whole 12 days they were here were not all spent in London (we also did Ireland and Paris but that’s for another blog post), we attempted to do as much as we could in the…
The Golden Mile
London is more than a series of tourist attractions. The little streets and local parks are the places that are making me fall in love with London. Well, those things and the pubs. London is infamous for all the little neighborhood pubs. And all of these places have names like, “The New Globe” or “The…
Unravelling Britain
One of my favorite classes (out of the four that I am taking) is named: Unravelling Britain: British History Since 1801. Overlooking the intimidating vastness of the title when I selected this course, I was extremely excited to learn a little more about this place that I am calling home for just over three months….