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Hello! It has been a while since my last blog post and a lot has happened. For starters, I am now attending my classes on a regular basis and have officially been on my first trip out of the UK for the semester! Classes here in the UK are quite different…

El Día de San Cecilio, patrón de Granada Corrina, Bethany, and I heard about a really cool celebration of the patron saint of Granada from our Spanish friends and decided to see what it was all about. We made the one hour hike up the extremely hilly…

Our semester is in full swing! We’re beginning our second full week of classes and we’re getting more confident at navigating the city that we’ll be calling home for the next four months–I’ve already lost count of the different tapas restaurants and cafes…

A quick trip to Edinburgh is always fun and easy. I decided to go into the city on February 4 with one other friend. We decided to go to Edinburgh Castle and the National Museum of Scotland. We had already been to the museum previously with our class…

Parque Federico García Lorca In this blog, I’m only going to document the days that stick out to me most—the ones that contain my favorite memories and the ones that I most want to share! After an extensive orientation, I was delighted to have an entire…

For those of you that have never played the wonderful game of sardines, I highly recommend that you add it to your bucket list. The simplest way to describe this game is kinda like reverse hide-and-seek. Instead of one person looking for others that have…

This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit the Tower of London, to which Arcadia was nice enough to provide tickets. It was much, much larger than I expected and though I had only planned on spending an hour or two walking around and taking pictures…

I have a strange relationship with being alone. Growing up with a twin sister, I was never truly on my own. At the same time, I have always been introverted, and spending time by myself is not only something I enjoy but something I couldn't get by without…

When everything’s going to plan in your life, you normally don’t mix it up. But sometimes, that’s exactly what you need to do. Growing up and going to the only school I could ever think of attending- The University of Nebraska- was a plan that was executed…