Paris was such a dream! We ended up having one full free day to explore and we were able to hit a lot of the must-see spots. Here are the places we went and the lovely things we saw!

With my flight to Morocco not departing until the first of February and my classes in Chicago having finished mid-December, I’ve had WAY too much time to myself here in small-town Ohio. I was fortunate enough to have opportunities to travel while I was growing up here, but ever since I moved off to college I can barely stay put.

At the very beginning of our semester abroad, we were warned of culture shock, and nearing the end of our time in France I realized that it did indeed become a reality and problem for many. Since being back in Oxford I haven’t been a stranger to it, nor have I been completely “shocked” by it.

Immediately upon returning to the United States, the main sentiment I felt while I waited out my layover in the Atlanta airport or drove around town my first few days back at home was how easy everything is in the United States.

You're a college student on a budget and you're studying abroad in Buenos Aires. Congratulations! 

Here are some basic tips based off of my experience:

Where to stay:

Whenever I go to a new place there are a few things I notice immediately: flow of the people, frequency of coffee shops, and the language. Language is something so important and so beautiful, yet when it is familiar we hardly think about it. IES Abroad's program in Santiago, Chile is full-on immersion, so we had to have a little bit of Spanish knowledge going in to the semester. I think we were all at least comfortable with the idea of holding daily life conversations in Spanish.