I’ve mentioned this earlier, but I’m a coffee fanatic. I love having a go-to coffee shop that is my ‘comfort place’ to grab a reliable cup of—not Dunkin Donuts watered-down— coffee. I definitely consider myself to be more of an old soul, in the sense that I try my best to be loyal to one coffee shop. At home, my go-to coffee shop is the perfect place to grab coffee, meet up with friends, and talk for hours on end. At school, my go-to coffee shop is the best place to grab coffee, sit alone, and do my homework.

Hi, my name is Anastasiya, I’m from Russia, and I’ll be studying abroad closer to my hometown than when I’m at my home university :) I’m here to share my experience as an international student in Barcelona. So you better grab a pencil and a piece of paper to make notes on the coolest places, activities, and spots in the city. Welcome, and enjoy!

It’s crazy to think that it takes less than a day to travel halfway around the world.

Hello everybody, 

It seems like this blog has been getting off to a negative start what with all my worrying in the last post, BUT in my defense I started my trip in the worst possible way.* While I was in the bathroom at SeaTac airport in Seattle I handed my passport to my Dad; he didn’t hand it back before saying goodbye at the line for the security checkpoint. He doesn’t own a cellphone, so my only option was to wait and hope he noticed. For about ten minutes I thought this whole excursion was going to fall apart at the very first step.

Right now, I’m sitting at the airport waiting to board my 5am flight to New York. I’m stopping in Brooklyn for a couple days to visit friends before heading out for the second leg of my travels; first a layover in Ireland and then finally to my final destination of the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. I’m that perfect combination of scared and excited where I remember what it’s like to really live, to live fully and completely, like I hope to in the upcoming months.

Guten Tag!  

Ciao! My name is Max and I am a rising junior from George Washington University in Washington, DC. I am studying Finance and Real Estate but have a passion for exploring different cultures. As such, I have spent a majority of 2018 living abroad. From mid-February till early July, I was studying in Shanghai, China at Fudan University. I could never have guessed how much I would enjoy the cities, countryside or people in China, but it was truly an awesome experience.