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Dear readers, publishers, and friends whom I have dragged to this URL: welcome to the end. Last night I bid my official academic studies adieu, this morning I handed in drafts of two Co-Curricular Learning Certificates, and my laptop is imminently headed…

While the last two months in Italy have been incredible, my excitement reached an all time high when fall break rolled around. Arcadia gives all the students a week-long fall break the week after mid-terms, which is a prime opportunity to for all of us…

One of the questions I was most frequently asked prior to going abroad was, “Why?” More specifically, “Why so soon?” given that I was just entering my sophomore year and would be one of the youngest in my program of around 90 students. I often replied…

The Arcadia program took us on tours of La Alhambra and Albacin, which were included in the program. We had a wonderful guide for both trips and were taken to the best views of the ancient Arab influenced palace (San Nicolas) and of the city Granada.…

If you are planning on doing a North Island road trip, I suggest stopping in Taupō. A few friends of mine, and myself, decided that we wanted to do the Tongariro Crossing about a month ago so we rented a car and got a little B&B. I didn’t think much…

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”  - Nelson Mandela As of late, I’ve been feeling as though my study abroad has been lacking in any actual studying. It’s been just over five weeks since I’ve last attended…

If you were to ask my family and friends to describe me in one word, “easy-going” would not make the short list. Efficient? Yes. Sincere? I hope! But I have never been one to embrace complete spontaneity. However, being abroad has pushed me to cope with…

If you’ve read my first blog post, you will have discovered an incredibly important fact about me: I read a lot. I have always been a reader, will always be a reader, and hope to instill this love of reading into my children for generations to come. So…

It's a little upsetting when I constantly hear people, particularly people my age, claim that they will not be to voting this year. From the outside looking in I have to be perfectly frank that I think that America is looking mighty silly with its candidates…