First week in South Korea!
Ahnyeonghasaeyo! Greetings from Seoul, South Korea. I have just spent a little over a week in Seoul, South Korea and wow, everything has been an adventure! Waiting at the boarding gate in the San Francisco International Airport by myself last… READ MORE →
An introduction to the frustrations of Russian language
All together, my trip from Jersey’s suburbs to St. Petersburg, Russia amounted to approximately 15 hours of travel. Partially the function of my seemingly perpetual jetlag, my first few days in Petersburg were almost inexpressibly overwhelming. I arrived with over… READ MORE →
Cross-Culture Shock: Returning to the U.S. from Trinidad & Tobago
Rewind back to January 2013. I climbed into the sweltering heat of Trinidad, yanked off my sweatshirt, and peered into a blinding sunlight the likes of which I had not seen in a long while. The taxi driver pulled up… READ MORE →
Pura Vida, Costa Rica
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton Watching from the plane window as the sun… READ MORE →
AND LIFE GOES ON
It’s funny how the world doesn’t stop when you’re not attending to it. Coming home doesn’t mean coming back. Instead it means learning what has changed. How you have changed. In coming home you learn what old hang-ups are gone,… READ MORE →
100% Aventura: A Journal Excerpt
Here I sit at Drake Bay on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. Two friends and I are resting with feet perched atop the white railing of our porch. We are awaiting the moment when we can no longer see… READ MORE →
An International Ambition
History has thrived upon an ability to dream. I have never received the comprehensive road map, or tutorial for direction in my life. What I have had is inspiration that grows from wisdom and stories by sometimes seemingly insignificant interactions. … READ MORE →
A Blog in Four Parts – Moroccan Travels
This is my final week in Rabat and I’ve been rather remiss in keeping you all updated on my travels and travails! In this case however I have a good excuse: my twenty one page final Independent Study Project was… READ MORE →
Reevaluating Goals
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to join a tour alongside the western coast of Trinidad and Tobago. We climbed aboard a bus and chugged into the heart of Chaguanas, stopping at two famous Hindu sites: An ashram… READ MORE →
Carnaval – Part 3
The next night I found my way to an area I’d never stopped at previously… there was a roof constructed, over a small area, with a picnic table underneath, a long bench along one side, and a woodstove made of… READ MORE →