In less than a week I will be boarding the flight to head to my fourth new home in the past six months. Sure, it won’t be a permanent home, since I’ll only be in Rabat for a semester, but then again at this point in my life I don’t really seem to have a single permanent home anymore. This past summer was my last one in the Philadelphia area, my family’s home for the past ten years and where I have returned to for holidays since I started university in Washington DC.

Success! The plane has docked and the people have filed out, we've been bused to the airport terminal and I've been taxied to the apartment. With relative ease I've arrived in Shanghai and am now officially studying abroad. After having arrived and gotten somewhat more comfortable in what is undoubtedly still a very new environment to me, I think I can perhaps offer some tips for some of the more immediate, arrival-related minutia of studying abroad.

With my third week in Dublin finished, I am nearly a quarter of the way through my time in Ireland… and the feeling of panic is setting in. Where should I travel? When should my family visit? What do I still need to see in Ireland?

I've been in Paris for a little more than a week and it's... indescribable. The magic of the city isn’t just an American fantasy but a real, almost tangible thing. This is most likely due to the fact that I have only seen Paris as a tourist so far, taking pictures of every mildly interesting building I see and not yet understanding the lay of the land. But there are perks to being a tourist: not caring how silly you look taking selfies with national monuments and having some beautiful pictures that will forever remind you of your study abroad.

Bonjour! I've been in France for a little over two weeks now, and while the first one felt like it crawled by with all the orientation events, this past week has gone by in the blink of an eye. We started courses on Monday, and I can already tell it's going to a be a little while before I'm able to understand everything being said, let alone start to critically analyze texts. However, I'm enjoying listening and taking notes as much as I can.

For a lot of my life I’ve occupied the spaces in-between—in between different places, time zones, cultural norms, languages. In this past year alone, I boarded 22 flights, spent over 145 hours on planes or in airports, and slept in over 40 different dorm rooms, hotels, hostels and homes across the world. Yet despite the amount of time I’ve spent travelling, truth be told, I really dread the whole ordeal.

"Adventure is out there!" Exclaimed two young explorers, in what can be considered one of the best Disney Pixar movies to date.

Indeed, adventure is waiting for us anywhere.  As a young explorer about to venture on a semester long journey to New Zealand, I thought I would share some lessons I've learned from previous travels to other countries.  This advice comes from a photographer's perspective, but can be applicable to many situations, behind a lens or not.

So no one told you Granada was going to be this way…*clap, clap, clap, clap*

Orientation week is in full swing! New students are adjusting to the city, their homestays, the tapas culture, and simply speaking in Spanish todo el día. For me and my other friends staying for the year, it's refreshing to see their excitement - and to appeal to their boundless curiousity by answering all their questions.