Life is the beach. Let’s be real, a huge reason why Australia is an amazing place to study abroad is because of their easily accessible beaches. You can hop on one bus and thirty to forty minutes later, you’ve arrived. While we were in Sydney some friends and I decided to go to Coogee, probably […]
17 Feb. Waiting for Snow in Havana
Waiting for Snow in Havana 17 Feb. 2015 On a recent morning in Vedado, a relatively well-to-do neighborhood in Havana, a group of thirty people stood in a disorderly crowd waiting for the telephone office to open. People had come as early as 7 am to be at the front of the line when the […]
Alicante and Carnaval
This weekend, I made a trek to Alicante to visit my best friend who is studying abroad there, and it was also carnaval, a holiday where everyone dresses up in costume and dances in the street and all that jazz. It was a last minute trip, but I am so glad I was able to […]
Warmer Days
Hola! It’s beautiful and sunny outside, grateful for warm days and warm feelings. As part of the Seville program we are linked with speaking partners who are interested in practising English while helping us improve our Spanish. I started chatting with my speaking partner on Facebook a couple of weeks ago. We were trying to […]
Island Expectations
Expectations are a funny thing. They can mold and shape your opinion on anything. Whether they are high or low, expectations almost always find themselves to be vastly different from the realities of life. I couldn’t tell you what I expected this past week as I flew from Brisbane north to Proserpine. Hell, I’d only […]