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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".
Hello from Santiago!
In this post, I want to talk about what I have to do at my internship. I have talked a lot about how I’ve been feeling on this trip, what activities I’ve been doing, and general thoughts about Santiago and Chile, but I haven’t focused at all about what I’m actually doing Monday-Thursday from 8:30-4:30.
My confidence soared after I successfully navigated the Charles de Gaulle Airport after touching down in France last week, but it disappeared as soon as I stepped foot on the TGV from Paris to Nîmes en route to Arles.
I’m petty sure that I was one of the last people in my program to return to the states. That was because I made it a goal to see Scotland, and for eight days I travelled the country that gave me my surname, then had the opportunity to spend another three days in Amsterdam, saying goodbye to my city without the stress of exams or packing. This was the best decision I could have made while studying abroad.
I do realize that I haven’t written in this blog for a long time. I was planning to continue the last entry with a part two talking about the rest of the days of my first week, but that’s fallen through.
