Most Americans (and Westerners, in general) who are interested in travelling hear amazing things about Japan: amazing food, beautiful scenery, polite people, and incredible culture. I’ve been lucky enough over the past two months to experience these things for myself. For example, I went to a world-renowned restaurant for tonkotsu ramen with a fellow American…
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Unusual things for an exchange student from Olemiss in Germany (1)
Hi everyone! My next posts are going to focus largely on some of the things I have observed and find atypical or quite different when I compare the student life at Olemiss with that in Potsdam, Germany. One of the things I observed almost on arrival is to be prepared to take cash around: Here…
Port 11 – Day 5 – Ghana
Hello from my comfy bed upon the MV World Odyssey! Today started our as another great day at City of Refuge, but we were all sad when it came time to leave this afternoon. Our morning was similar to the past few days in the sense that we got up on the early side, at…
Whatsapp? “Nothing, Whatsapp with you?”
Look at me, becoming the advice blogger. I guess it was the inevitable result of not knowing anyone who has visited Argentina recently and blindly stumbling into the country hoping to pick up on the caveats of day to day life as I went along. So here goes Cecilia’s Big Tip #2- look into how…