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Bonjour. Last weekend, Suruchi, Erin, Alicia and I embarked on a Parisian adventure. Alicia had already been to the city many of times and has a friend, Caroline, studying abroad at a local Paris college. We left on Friday via Eurostar, which travels…

25 days. 25 days until I embark on the adventure of a lifetime. 25 days until I leave everything familiar and comfortable. 25 days until I experience different food, accents, and classes. I wish I could say I’m nothing but excited, but that would be a…

​I am this city These four walls, surround me in my times of weakness. When my feet can no longer withhold the weight my body begs for these four walls. I’ve yet to memorize their rivets and cracks the way I have these old cobble stone streets that…

Off on my second adventure with WSA and it was a blast! My friend Lacye and I got on an early morning flight on a Friday and flew to Paris. Even though our trip was just a brief two days we sure did everything we could to see the sights. But in all honesty…

The Garage: This week I received an impromptu call from my best friend saying that our boy Niko, who I originally met years ago in Orlando when his career was first starting out,​ was performing in London later that night. Naturally, I dropped everything…

I felt like I was walking on a movie set. Everywhere I turned was something more beautiful and something more confusing, like a massive amount of segways or a time-meridian marking the two different time zones that make up the city of Prague. They even…

The city has taken it upon themselves to make me a very very happy camper and randomly place little Paddington Bears with different themes all around the city. Of course, once I spotted my first one I made a personal commitment to myself to find as many…

If I’ve learned anything in this first term abroad it’s to focus on what makes you happy and leave the rest behind. When life troubles have you down put them on the back burner for a little while, give yourself time to enjoy the moment rather than worry…

I knew that coming to Ireland in the fall I would miss many things back home, including Thanksgiving with the family. If there ever was a time I suffered the most homesickness, Thanksgiving was the day! This was my first time I would miss out on celebrating…