I want to take a moment and talk about something we all have, and we all use: smartphones. They can make you feel like you’re right next to someone 10,000 miles away, but they can also completely detach you from something happening not 5 feet in front… More
Although it has always been a personal goal of mine to step foot onto Cuban soil, I never thought that I’d actually have the opportunity to spend 3.5 months living on such a mysterious island. Hard work pays off, and here I sit in the Florida Keys preparing… More
Hey! I’m Gillian, and I’m an Anthropology major at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hopefully this blog will give those that are paying for my college education a shred of hope that I will be able to do something with my need for travel and invasive… More
Three weeks before I leave. Three weeks. I could have sworn I had a few months before I departed... Presently filled with an interesting mixture of fear, excitement, longing, mystery. I've been planning to study abroad since the 7th grade and now my… More
Today, I threw a boomerang. Tomorrow, who knows? Before I came here to Australia I made a list of things that I wanted to try and do while abroad. Throwing a boomerang (and actually have it return) was on my list. It feels good to make a bucket list… More