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This weekend was a blast! One of my best friends came and visited me from Rome and we explored Edinburgh Friday night before heading to Inverness on Saturday morning! We climbed Salisbury Crags at sunset, which was gorgeous. Watching the sun go down…

Despite the subarctic temperatures, wind chill of around negative 500 and severe rain… IT WAS GREAT! One thing I was not prepared for was the dramatic shift in weather. Obviously, I had not done enough research prior to my visit abroad because it’s apparently…

January 24, 2015 “Have you decided what you are going to do today?” Our B&B host asked as she placed our ordered breakfast of pancakes in front of us. “I think we are going to try to go to Inishbofin,” I replied. She didn’t seem to think our travel…

After I had decided on being in Scotland for the spring semester, I was pretty sure I wanted to go to Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day. The only problem was that I would miss school- good thing I found a way to minimize missed classes, but at the expense…

In the southwest corner of the New Zealand’s south island lies Fiordland. It’s the southernmost nob of the Southern Alps, a waterlogged region of mountains and coast that’s been gouged by glaciers, uplifted by crashing tectonic plates, and invaded by…

This past week, I went to Marrakech, Morocco with three of my friends. We stayed at a beautiful riad and the first day we were there, we had a traditional Moroccan dinner. It was delicious. We were able to go to the flea markets to bargain souvenirs,…

I cannot believe that this week will be my last week of classes here in London! Time has flown by so fast! Even though I am so happy classes are going to be over, I am sad because that means I will have to leave the place that has become my second home…

I am officially over halfway through my time in London. I have been living in London for 80 days, and return back home to the States in 70 days (according to my laptop’s countdown app). It’s honestly unbelievable to think that I’m over the halfway hump…

Alright. So I said that this week I was going to be honest and let you know that everything hasn't been great. It has been really rough to have to start over somewhere new with no friends, no roommate (for my first few days), and really, no one there…