Student Bloggers

Living in Sydney has given me an unexpected experience with homelessness. Particularly because my apartment is across from a main shopping mall where many homeless locals settle to ask for spare change and food from passers-by. I have had an opportunity…

Hello hello! This post has been a long time coming. I think I struggle with time here because life moves so quickly. I can hardly believe June is right around the corner, including my final internship project and after that, I head back to the US (something…

Recently, I worked as a volunteer at Sydney Fashion week, an event hosted across the city by Mercedes Benz. I was assigned to work with a fabulous swimwear line called “We Are Handsome.” The company’s swimmers are brightly patterned in a diverse array…

My semester in Siracusa, Sicilia is over. The last couple of weeks were a mixture of excitement and melancholy. We were excited to go home but sad to leave the friends we have made this semester. I had some goals this semester. Some goals required an…

This week felt like Sicily was trying to push as much fun and energy into me before I have to hunker down and study for finals, find a summer internship, sign up for classes back home and begin realizing my fun here is almost over. Our school took a trip…

Last week I was treated like a princess. It was by far the most fun I have had on Sicily. We had a school field trip for volcanology, which started on Thursday morning where we took a bus to Catania. There we went to the center for Geological Studies…

The sun finally showed its face this week, and what week but the first of spring could be better? It was hard to concentrate in school with the weather being so nice. We have all been waiting for Sicily’s famous hot weather but we have not seen any sign…

My first two weeks in Australia have come and gone, and this Sunday marks a month I have been in this wonderful continent. I have so much to report that I don’t know where to start (I should probably start journaling daily, maybe every few hours. Time…

This past week was spring break and everyone from our small little school of nine went in separate directions to explore Europe. A few boys decided on a huge adventure covering the entire country of Italy. They started in Naples, then went to Rome, Florence…