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Cheers is my new favorite word. 

Hi everyone! I've been staying so busy traveling around London, and exploring Scotland with my friend Geraldine and her family. What a life I live! 

Anyways, this post is all about terms. No, not "swag" or "lit" because I have never heard that in Britain. But terms that I never expected they really used, terms that I've never heard of, and terms that I absolutely love. 

Hello everyone,

I feel very happy I can finally tell you about Hongqiancun, our hometown for about two days. If you read my previous blog post, you can now get to know what my favorite part of our Ningxia trip looked like. If you still haven’t, I encourage you to do so!

Yes everyone, I've now learned the valuable lesson of why it's so important to always have your passport when travelling. 

A few weekends ago I travelled to Barcelona for Halloween. We had a flight planned from Madrid to Barcelona and since we were not flying internationally I thought I would not need to bring my passport. So I decided to not bring it with me because I didn't want to risk losing it if I didn't need it to get on my flight.

While everyone else here at IES Abroad Paris BIA was off traveling the world for Fall break I stayed here in Paris. Yet, in my opinion, I had the best week. You wanna know why? Because my mom came to visit. I had been looking forward to my mom coming more than anything. Even before I got here, I knew that was going to be one of my highlights of my time in Paris. Just the idea that I was going to get to show off this foreign city to the person I love the most was so flipping cool.

October has been a whirlwind of activity and I can’t believe that it flew by so quickly. From the busy class schedule to volunteering to a fall break adventuring in Europe the days seem to be slipping by faster than I’d imagined. But with Halloween festivities coming to a close and classes starting up again after our fall break, I thought I’d share with you guys some tips and tricks I’ve learned after my fall break adventures.

1. Do Your Research

Italians from outside of Milan often turn up their noses at Milanese cuisine, saying that il risotto giallo and l’osso bucco don’t hold a candle to the carbonara from Rome or pizza from Naples. For the most part I agree—I too prefer the heady, vibrant flavors of southern Italian food to the rounded, rich flavors of Milanese food. That being said, in the restaurant scene in Italy, Milan wins definitively at the art of Aperitivo.

It’s November of 2016 and everyone must be sick of the election by now. At the risk of being brutally honest, being sick of the election is not an opportunity to stop following the election or to allow yourself to be uninformed. Something I would really like to stress is that it’s not cool to be uninformed.