With all the travelling I have been doing in this program, it gets difficult to effectively care for my hair. If you have type 4 hair like me, it takes more time to style every morning and requires the appropriate products to help your hair grow and stay moisturized. In Europe, it is hard to find the suitable products for my hair. Luckily in Freiburg, I found a store called Muller, where I bought Garnier shampoo and conditioner.

Hola everyone. Last time I wrote a blog post, I was preparing for my Member States trip to Lisbon, Madrid, and Rome. Lisbon was such a wonderful city. I felt its vibrant energy as soon as I left the airport. The sight of palm trees and the clean beaches reminded me of being in Trinidad. The large crowd of people walking around the city taking pictures of sites reminded me of Times Square in New York City. It was a mixture of two of the places I call home. The food was amazing and was not very costly.

The best moments are the easiest to document because you want to maintain and treasure those memories. But when things go wrong...that's another story. Traveling and simply coming to a different country to study abroad inevitably comes with its struggles. Here, I've captured a raw, unglamorous moment of traveling that I am honestly so happy I recorded. Editing and re-watching the entire ordeal brought so much laughter and joy.

Despite the wonders of gelato, the awe-inducing sunsets at Lugano, the sprawling beaches of Barcelona, and the softly lit canals of Venice being in my backyard, it is still possible to be homesick. Though I have no yearnings to be at home per se, at this point in the journey I have begun to miss my family, friends, and familiarity of customs in the states deeply. Therefore, a visit from my family to close out the month of March couldn’t have been better timed.

Studying abroad anywhere will give you an enriching experience. Yet, where should you choose to study? I had a hard time choosing where to go, but I ultimately decided Vienna. Why? Well, Vienna has so much to offer!

Vienna is fantastic city to explore and to live in. In fact, Vienna has been voted the best place to live for the past nine years! It’s hard to argue with those statistics. So, why exactly should you study in Vienna? Let me explain…

Like many countries in the Arab world, cats rule the streets of Morocco. They sit where they please in the middle of busy markets, they look both ways before crossing the road, and they have even taken over an entire garden in Rabat's historic Kasbah of the Udayas! I'm going to share with you here a few of my favorite felines.

First off, there is Oscar from my homestay during my orientation in Meknes. Not all cats in Morocco live on the street, many are also spoiled pets! Oscar was the king of his apartment. 

During the stress of midterm exams, it was easy to forget the significance behind them. Yes, they marked an important period for grades to either rise or fall, but they also denoted something more—Mid­-terms, as in, middle of the semester—meaning this experience of a lifetime was already half way over. Before I left school in the states for the semester and thought of leaving my friends and the home I knew for a semester, 5 months away seemed like an eternity.

I think Assisi is the most peaceful town I’ve ever been to. It’s a medieval town with incredibly well-preserved architecture, centuries of history, incredibly pure cuisine, and a feeling of warmth, welcome, and peace that you can only experience in person.

It was one of the first days of Vienna; the birds gaily sang, the sky was a bright cerulean blue, and flowers were beginning to bloom. I stood on top of a cliff admiring the rolling green hills, speckled with soft-hued houses. Below me were the remnants of a marble quarry. As romantic as the setting was, the purpose of the quarry and the massive stone fortress behind me was in fact evidence of the most horrific crimes against humanity. I was at Mauthausen, a concentration camp used by the Nazis from 1938-1945.