My trip to visit my second family!
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Italy: Think Small (Reflection)
When I came to Italy, I became an idiot. The first night I arrived, my host sister could hardly eat her spaghetti because she was chuckling so hard at the incorrect way that I twirled my pasta. Over the first days, I said “yes” consistently to questions whose answers were definitely not “yes or no,”…
A Night In or Out
Classes at AALIM (Arab American Language Institute in Morocco) are intense. The four hours of Modern Standard Arabic every morning, Darija lessons after lunch, and the usual load of homework can really add up. So midway through our first week, I was feeling the heat and I thought it would be fun to take a…
Austria: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – LoTR
One week shy of the one year anniversary of my return from my semester in Berlin, Germany … Here I am at the airport… again … this time to Klagenfurt, Austria. … and if you would have told me then that less than a year later I would be swept off again, I would have…
6 Months Already?
Since my last post, I have had the chance to travel around New South Wales, Australia a bit more. A little over two week ago a group of my friends and I headed up the coast to a little beach town called Byron Bay. The town was very eclectic as it had a wide variety…
Riley: San Pedro de Atacama
This past week I was fortunate enough to have some family members come visit me here in Chile. I was pretty down in the dumps once my best friend, who came for a visit, left. My Aunt and Uncle who were coming for a visit gave me something more to look forward to! While…
May Days
Since I last wrote there have been many celebrations here in Sydney. Firstly, we started off with celebrating Cinco De Mayo. Not many Aussie’s know what the holiday is, but we definitely didn’t let that stop us from celebrating! We found a trendy Mexican cantina to have dinner and then ended up at one of the more…