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I made it a point to take advantage of every moment I had left abroad, and that meant traveling every single weekend I had available. I reckon that is what studying abroad is all about, right? Well, not entirely, of course the main event is education. However, it is not only that but also what I am getting out of my experience, and that is experience.
Experiencing the Moeraki Boulders.
My sister and her boyfriend came to visit me a few weeks back and it was an interesting experience; mostly due to the fact that she was the first American I had interacted with that hadn’t been abroad in Argentina the same amount of time or more than I had been. I.e. this was the first person I had interacted with who did not undergo the cultural adjustment that all other American students had gone through.
Over the past month, I’ve been surrounded by Muslims who are fasting for Ramadan. In the final days of Ramadan, I decided to join them for a day. Most students in my program tried fasting for a day or two, and I decided it was my turn.
Hello all! In this blog post I want to cover my experience commuting to work and interning at TrueStart. It's been an amazing time so far. For all my fellow interns and students out there in London, I hope your time here is just as fun!
Now that I've been in Arles for over three weeks, I feel like I've adjusted to life in the south of France and started to follow a routine. I feel even more well-adjusted when I see the hordes of tourists adorned in bucket hats, wandering the narrow streets looking completely lost, toting cameras, maps and literal walking sticks.
As I explained in a previous blog post, I had the opportunity to visit Croatia during Germany's Pentecost break. It was an incredible trip that allowed me to see a part of the world I had not been exposed to before. The country was so beautiful that I had to share some photos with everyone. Some things are too good to keep to yourself.
Travel through Nagano Prefecture including temples, shrines, mountains and snow monkeys.
The IES Abroad semester is officially finished. I have written multiple papers, learned a lot of new German, and met some amazing people who were part of my program.
This past week was crazy with exams, and paper writings. I had to take about 4 exams and write 4 papers totaling over 30 pages of writing. That was the most writing I have ever done in German. At the beginning of the semester I would never imagine being able to do this, but now I can say I completed 30 pages of paper writing in a language other than English.
Ever since arriving in Germany I knew that Germans loved opening their window all the time for fresh air or "frisches Luft".
