I have tried to travel as much as I can while also trying to be as active and present in Paris as possible. I have travelled around western, central and eastern Europe and have enjoyed all the different cultures, foods, and people that each country has had to offer to me. As I wrote in …
It is now almost the end of November and truly time is flying by. I cannot believe that in less than a month, I will be back home in the United States. I honestly have mixed feelings over the idea of going home. Although I absolutely love it over here and truly love the culture …
This past month was absolutely nuts. Don’t get me wrong… I have had a blast being here, but I am just getting so run down. I was gone basically every weekend of October. The first weekend I was in Munich, Germany, for Oktoberfest which is similar to a big carnival and within the carnival there …
I attend a university called Université Paris-Dauphine that is in the 16th arrondissement (neighborhood/district/quarter) in Paris and I absolutely love it! It is more of a business/economic university so I am definitely out of place, but I am taking courses that are super chill and have nothing to do with business- mainly because of the …
Obviously something significant that we learned about was the topic of apartheid. For those who are not knowledgeable on the term, it is an Afrikaans term (Afrikaans is one of the 11 national languages of SA and also the language of the early Dutch settlers) that basically means separation. The white Afrikaners separated themselves from …
I am definitely late to the party on writing my two blog posts for the three weeks that I was abroad in South Africa—but my justification is that I was wayyy to busy learning so much and basically soaking it all in. In all reality, we hardly had any free time except to go back …
Notre Dame de Paris, or translated in English, Our Lady of Paris, has been a landmark in Paris and for the Christian faith for hundreds of years. But, last week, the world was shaken to see that this beautiful and significant landmark burnt down. I will be studying abroad in Paris next semester and the …
I just got back from Easter weekend yesterday and find that this international event is worth talking about– specifically because of how current it is and also because the effect and sadness that it has left on the entire world. On Sunday, a series of bombs exploded throughout Sri Lanka at different churches and hotels. …