Again, let’s pretend that I’m writing this in December. People always say that you experience some type of culture shock when you get back. However, I can say that I really haven’t. I think for me it’s more a sense of relief to be back?? Don’t get me wrong, I am so extremely grateful to …

This post goes into my ‘December’ posts, but with coming back to the states and just getting back into the swing of things, I am a bit late. I got back over here on December 30, after spending Christmas with my family in Montreux, Switzerland and then a few days in Paris. It was great, …

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 …

Never did I think I would meet such great people! The best part is that most of these people in this picture live in the same residence as me! When I got here I was super nervous and was not really sure if I would ever have real and true friends. The first few days …

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 …

Let’s just pretend that I am writing this 1 day ago… I have been SOOOO busy in Paris. I am absolutely obsessed with this city and have never truly been as happy. I feel so free here and am having an absolute blast. At the moment, one of my friend’s moms is in town. She …

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 …