I’ve contracted the disease. The symptoms are all there: spontaneously buying bus tickets to new countries, laughing at my dwindling bank account with little remorse, traveling directly after class ends on Friday and only returning to Angers in time for my Monday class. Every night I find myself obsessively searching for the cheapest route to…
Tag: travel
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Expect the Unexpected
Before I stepped foot into Brazil’s “Marvelous City” (as Rio is affectionately known as), I didn’t realize there were several different phases of emotions that first time travelers normally experience-at least, for me there was. The first, of course, was excitement. I was bubbly with this emotion from the very onslaught and could barely contain myself when…
EAT (pastries), PRAY (for more pastries), LOVE (those pastries)
It’s three weeks into my study abroad experience in Angers, and I can finally say I’ve nestled quite cozily into my new environment. I’ve taken to an all-black wardrobe, started smoking a pack of cigarettes for petit-déjeuner, and have finally reached fluency. Actually none of that is true, but I have spent the last few…
Belgium: A Weekend of Firsts
After two weekends in a row of traveling, I’m back in Amsterdam, curled up with a cup of my favorite tea uploading all my pictures and wearing my new flannel (a sign that the weather has finally started showing the first glimpse of fall). Two weekends ago, I went with a group of my friends…
Greece: Constantinopoli (I went to Istanbul!)
Some exciting things have happened since my last post. That was forever ago, I know, but I haven’t really been doing a lot. A few weeks ago I was accepted for a paid internship for the summer. Around that time I found out a few people from my group were planning on going to Istanbul,…
Greece: Midterms and Meteora
Sometimes it’s easy to forget the first word of the term “studying abroad.” That is, we are actually going to school. Weird, right? We have tests and projects and other normal school things. I had no idea. Anyway, spring break is next week, (Here in Greece, lovely, lovely Greece, spring break is two weeks long. score.)…