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If you come to Christchurch, New Zealand with IES Abroad, you will be offered the choice to sign up for a week long field trip to the Cooks Islands with the other students in IES Abroad. I remember signing up for this trip all the way back in January. The timing of the trip is nice because UC Canterbury’s spring break is 3 weeks long. So if you sign up for this field trip, you still have two weeks free to
The time has finally come. This past week was my last in Rome and Europe.
The selfie. We all have at least one somewhere on our phone, right? We’ve all done it: taken a quick look to see who was around before sheepishly turning our phones towards ourselves and snapping a quick photo before too many people noticed what we were up to. What else are front facing camera’s for, anyway? I’m no exception to this, but I will say that long ago I vowed to myself, that despite my love of photographing my own face from an uncomfortably close distance, I’d never be a selfie-stick wielding individual.
5-20-2016
I went to JC Penny’s today to buy some tank tops for Beijing, because it’s gonna be 80 degrees and muggy every day there. When I was checking-out, the cashier asked me about my summer plans, and when I told her I was going to China she replied, “China?! You better be careful there. You don’t want to disappear to some labor camp!” I guess my reaction gave away the fact that I didn’t quite follow her, because next she responded with “China, they’re like North Korea, right?”
Hey there! My name is Lorraine Engleman, and I’m extremely excited to be a participant in the IES Abroad European Union Summer program this year! I’m from Moberly, Indiana, and I study Elementary Education at Indiana University Southeast. Between classes at IUS, observing my practicum kiddos at Whitney Young Elementary, and subbing at my alma mater, school is pretty much my life, so it’s only fitting that my summer in Germany revolves around school as well!
I am writing this after looking at my phone and realizing that I leave for my first flight in 3 1/2 days... I thought for sure I had a week or two left. I can't believe it has sprung up on me so fast and I haven't even started packing yet! Now, a little bit about me. My name is Amanda Rogers. (Fun fact: I'm named after an instrument. Amanda Lynn=A mandolin. Get it?) I am a senior at Marietta College, which is in Marietta, Ohio (not Georgia and trust me, that's a common mistake).
Life is about to get weird.
Again.
Roughly translating to: What’s good, and brief, is then twice as good.
When my professor said this in class, I felt my face flush with heat and a shiver crawl its way up my spine as the moment felt like further proof of me accepting an undeniable reality. No matter how much we want things to happen forever, everything ends.
If you're reading this, chances are I'm back at home with my family in Upstate New York. Although my time in Vienna has come to a close--as I write this, I have only one full day left in the city--it hasn't fully dawned on me that I am going home. Finals are almost over, my suitcases are halfway packed, and I have a cab lined up to take me to the airport, but home feels almost as foreign as Austria did a little more than four months ago.
