Touching Tangier
I have a confession to make: I do not like planning. When it comes to traveling, my mentality is, ‘let’s get there first and we will figure it out later.’ It’s impulsive. It comes with a large degree of uncertainty.… READ MORE →
Study Abroad and My Future: A Love Story
When I first left for Freiburg, I was pretty undecided about what I wanted to do with my degree in German. With just one year left, I knew I needed to decide. And quickly. I had some ideas that I’d… READ MORE →
Traveling Outside of Moscow
Russia is a very interesting country to travel in. Withholding the fact that the geographic area of the country itself is the largest in the world, there are a variety of other factors that debunk a lot of American perceptions… READ MORE →
Finding Fes
Life has settled for me in Ifrane. The first weekend after classes started, most of the exchange students took a day trip to Fes, which I unfortunately missed. After two days of traveling, four days of orientation and a full… READ MORE →
Culture Shock… What’s that?
I’ll be honest, I used to laugh at the idea of culture shock and reverse culture shock. Now for me, I do not think I have had culture shock in any of the countries I have gone to. I am… READ MORE →
The Oscillations of Life Abroad
While this graph certainly describes many of the joys and struggles of studying abroad, my experiences would look a bit more like the oscillations of an EEG. When I arrived, everything was incredibly exciting and invigorating. I was thrilled that… READ MORE →
The Burden of Traveling
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the… READ MORE →
An Unexpected Friendship
When talking about what we wanted to do while in Spain, my friends and I decided that we didn’t just want to stay in Zaragoza; we wanted to see other parts of Spain as well. When my friends Angela and… READ MORE →
Seeing Peru Through Peruvian Eyes
For my first few weeks, finding friends was a struggle. I have become accustomed to making friends in the university setting, but that avenue was unavailable to me here. My luck has improved since. I now have two groups of… READ MORE →
Russian Food
There are many similarities between Russian and American food culture, however, some differences make themselves apparent. For example, food is mass-produced in the United States. Therefore, a lot of extra chemicals and preservatives are added to keep them up to… READ MORE →