Mark Twain once wrote, “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these account. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” I wanted to start my journey to Ireland […]
If you are giving me a grade then maybe this post isn’t for you
I’ve decided that perhaps grades are irrelevant. While it depends what purpose a grade holds in your life, for example maintaining a scholarship or personal fulfillment, for me I have decided its not the point in my study abroad. This decision has come from several different places, but I think it happened while I was […]
Bilingüe?
The first week in Spain, Spanish was a stream of words I clumsily tried to understand. Although I could pick out words and phrases I knew from strangers’ sentences, the thought of processing and responding to a native Spanish speaker with comprehensible and regionally appropriate grammar and vocabulary was terrifying to me. Although I’ve had great […]
Baloncesto en Sevilla
So if you know me at all, you know that playing basketball is one of my passions. The last month I had been itching to play in any sort of manner: pickup, real games, or even just finding a place to dribble. Finally, a couple weeks ago, my host mom put me in contact with […]
At Home on the Terrace
Currently sitting in my favorite spot, the terrace just off of my room in my home in Sevilla. The maroon walls are covered with overgrown green plants and lined with countless pots of all different shapes, colors and sizes. The floor is covered in beautiful tiles with touches of blues, pinks, whites and yellows. To […]