Student Bloggers

After a few crazy weeks with school work, things are finally starting to settle down! The education system here versus back home is very different. For the majority of classes here in London we are graded on two assignments (if we are lucky). For me,…

I knew two things about Scotland before I went. The first was that people wore kilts. I didn’t know why and I didn’t exactly know how common it was to where a kilt, but I knew they existed. The second Scotland fact I was aware of was that they ate something…

Before the earth, before the sun and the moon there was nothing but Io– a genderless, parentless energy dancing within the void. Io was, and is, the potential of the world, and the Maori spiritual equivalent to the Christian God. Within the darkness and…

The University of Edinburgh has a week long break from classes during February. Rather than staying in Scotland for the week, my friend and I packed our backpacks to the brim and headed to Germany and Austria. It was a great eleven days but I was exhausted…

18 January 2015 For my last day with my home stay family, I soaked in the quiet morning of a room of my own as much as I could before moseying to the kitchen for breakfast. It was bittersweet to think that today my weekend was coming to an end. On one…

The Wallace Collection: Last week I got the opportunity to visit one of, in my opinion, the coolest museum collections in all of London. The story goes, Mr. Wallace and his wife moved to the Marylebone area from Paris and brought their massive art collection…

Oxford University: I finally got the chance to make it up to visit Oxford and let me just tell you, it was just as amazing as I’d expected. The campus was brimming with finely dressed students that smelled smarter than me. Also, all the buildings looked…

This week was a relaxing week for me. I got my midterms back and was satisfied with my grades. To celebrate, on Tuesday, I went to a taco place called, "Tacos Tacos" with my friends. A fun fact is that I literally live right across the street from this…

It’s been almost a month since my last blog post, and I come back to writing this blog with more knowledge, more stamps in my passport, and more smells on my backpack. Since last writing, I have embraced my traveler’s soul and found myself in Dublin,…