Study Abroad
I'll be studying abroad from September 2, 2015 to December 20, 2015. Pretty awesome experience if I say so myself. I'll be taking you on this journey and you'll find stuff about this experience in this category!
Reflect: Study Abroad
Hello darlings! If you’ve tuned into my blog for the past four months you would have realized I was exploring all of Europe. I am incredibly fortunate to have been able to see as much as I did. I ended up going to eight countries and sixteen major cities. These were my weekends. Siena, Italy I studied in Siena and I wouldn’t have changed the location for the world. It’s an adorable Tuscany city with rustic buildings and contada flags everywhere. I walked to school every day and saw some of the most beautiful buildings. I may have left this adorable town, but I will not forget it. Sunday Snapshot:…
Christmas in Italy
Hello darlings! I was luckily enough to stay in Siena, Italy this week! I know it’s a shock! The last weekend I stayed in Siena was the week I did a day trip to Assisi… in October! It’s been a long time. So instead of rushing myself to get to a foreign country I enjoyed Siena. I got to enjoy every bit of Siena. Instead of having class inside, my flavors and taste class went to a panforte factory! We got to see how these “energy bars” are made. Panforte originates in Siena in the 13th century. It’s made of fruit, nuts, and spices. We also tried ricciarelli, an almond based…
What a Budaful Place to Be
Hello darlings! I just finished my last big trip of the semester! Have you guessed where I went? The wonderful city of Budapest. It was quite Budaful! I was Hungary the whole time. Okay enough with the puns! I’ll tell you what I did in the wonderful country of Hungary. After the ten hour drive, we woke up in the country of the red, white, and green. We quickly ate breakfast and then went on a three hour walking tour. We saw things like the Dohány Synagogue, which is the second biggest Synagogue in the world. We also walked on the Szechenyi Chain Bridge, which connects Buda and Pest together. I got most…
Irish You Were Here!
Hello darlings! This weekend, I headed out to Ireland with Courtney. We stayed in a hostel Wednesday night near the Rome airport so we could catch our early flight. The room was painted bright orange and had a giant fan pinned onto the wall. We eventually made it to Dublin Thursday afternoon. Courtney and I went straight to the hostel to drop off our luggage. We stayed at the Generator and it was by far the best hostel I’ve ever stayed in. There was a bar and a restaurant connected to it. After we dropped off our things, we headed out to grab a bite to eat. We ended up…
All That Glisters is Not Gold
Hello darlings! I had to start this blog post with a line from the Merchant of Venice! Especially because I visited both Venice and Verona this weekend with my friends! Lucky for us, everything that looked beautiful stayed true! Venice and Verona was incredibly beautiful despite the fog on Friday! The fog actually made a lot of these pictures look eery and gorgeous! Friday, we woke up early and jumped on a bus in Florence. When we arrived to Venice, we checked into an… interesting… hotel. There was a little mold in certain places, but we survived! The first thing Courtney did was check the corners of the beds for bed…
No Prague-blems here!
Hello darlings! Last weekend, I took a 12 hour bus to Prague! The bus part sounds awful doesn’t it? Surprisingly, it wasn’t bad at all! We watched movies the whole time and I was able to fall asleep on the bus. It was kind of nice having a day off to just relax. We left Thursday night and arrived Friday morning. Friday After the 12 hours on the bus, we had a little over an hour break to get ready for the day. Once everyone was ready we started a walking tour of New Town, Old Town, and the Jewish Quarter. It was so interesting to hear all the history about…
The Biggest Ben I’ve Ever Seen
To wrap my my 10 day break posts... The wonderful London...
The Parisian Way
As you’ve already seen from my post about Barcelona, I went to Paris this past week. It was marvelous! I never thought I’d love France so much! I was a little, or a lot depending on what time of day you saw my facial expression, nervous about figuring out how to get to our hostel. We realized our plane was later than we thought which means arriving at our hostel around 11:30pm. Not something I’d imagine someone lending their house to strangers would like. Fortunately, our Airbnb host was a fantastic human being and said she’d gladly meet us at 11:30pm. Come to find out that she was actually living…
The Beauty of Barcelona
Hello darlings! I had the best week ever! If you read my last post you would know that I spent the week in Barcelona, Paris, and London. I have way too many pictures for all three so I’ll be breaking up the cities into three different posts. Hope you don’t mind all these wonderful pictures! Day One The first thing we did in Barcelona was go into Casa Batllo! When you go inside of the house, you receive a phone. When you hold the phone over certain things in the room an animation appears. For example, the fire pit pictured below turned into a mushroom! It was such a cool and…
Restful Week in Italy
Hello darlings! This weekend was luckily a very laidback one. Saturday, my school went to Assisi to see the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi and went to the Perugina chocolate factory. Wednesday, our friend from home came with his brother and his brother’s friends. We showed them the best view of Siena: the top of the Arch. It was Micky, Courtney and my first time being up there. I was amazed how much you can see from the top of it! If you’re ever in Siena go on the top of the Arch! It is well worth the 7 Euros. Thursday, we went for apertivio! It was my first time…
