Student Bloggers

It is finally starting to get warmer here in Wellington! An average of 50°F during the winter is nothing to complain about, but it’s so beautiful and nice out now that it’s almost 60°F. Last Sunday the wind stopped blowing and I thought I was going melt…

“How are you? Passport please,” a South African woman said to me in a very thick accent. So thick I could not understand clearly. I felt bad for leaning in close and slowly asking three times, “Could you say that again?” The South African woman soon got…

The last two and a half weeks have been a whirlwind of information, sights, and new experiences. Seventeen days ago I did not know what the sky looks like when flying into the light of the rising sun, the stars still visible behind you, and with a watch…

This week has seemed like the longest week. Perhaps it was that I was at home working up until last Saturday, September 12, and now everything is different. I am no longer employed. No longer in the United States. Life is about change. It is; change…

One of the biggest factors encouraging me to study abroad was the idea of having a great adventure. Unfortunately, I was not prepared for the crazy journey about to happen as I left my house last Tuesday to leave for Dublin. Originally, my travel plans…

I have been putting off writing about my trip to the Aran Islands because I feel like there is no way I can do it justice. A group of us took a day trip to bike around the island and I fell in love. Everything is so serene and so perfect. The landscape…

During the entire flight overseas, I was pinching myself because I really could not believe that I was headed to achieve a dream that I have had since I was ten-years-old. I still could not believe it when I arrived in London yesterday at 09:30. It was…

I have been in Aberdeen since January 2015, after the end of the semester I did a geology summer project with a professor and a Ph.D student at the University. Then I went back home to visit my family in Tanzania. I am now back in the Silver city (Aberdeen…

I’m studying abroad at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. I’ve been in Townsville for almost two months now. TWO MONTHS. Time doesn’t seem real. While I can’t believe that it has already been two months of living and classes and…