The excursion to las Cataracas de Iguazú is one of those trips that everybody raves about, but you can never really understand why until you go for yourself. It definitely sounds like an exciting time when you hear about it–walking through a beautifully preserved national park of Argentina admiring one of the New Seven Wonders of the World–who wouldn’t be intrigued by that? But for me I didn’t think too much of it; I even debated if I should spend the time and money going so far for just a weekend.

Today as I was flipping through my planner in search of a password I’d jotted down a few months ago, I came across a reminder I’d written to myself to finish my study abroad application. It’s incredible to think that just six months ago, study abroad was just a fantasy.

Day 12 of my sojourn into a foreign land. So far I have gathered that McDonalds sells macaroons (unfortunately they’re not called McMacaroons), the color pink is never worn by French people, and the view for my window makes me wanna go all Quasimoto up in here. I’ll sum up a few vital lessons I learned in the city of love for those of you who actually take the time to read study abroad blogs.

If I were to write a memoir about the past week of my life (believe me, I’m long-winded enough — this 500 word maximum is killing me) I would call it “Queue” as in: “Hannah Vose has spent most of her waking hours since leaving for the airport last Thursday  queueing.”

We are now educated in the art of crafting silk quilts!

As this past weekend rolled around a group of us decided to travel to Venice to get away for the weekend.  This was my first experience with riding the train and it proved to be a very easy process.  We arrived in Venice late Friday night and made our way to the hostel.  We choose a hostel called Camping Jolly where you get to sleep in tents.  Now these tents were not what people think of back in the states when we go camping.  They were large tent like structures with beds inside.  Our hostel was amazing, at least from

I just completed my first week of classes at the IES Center.