So I wasn’t planning to go on the IES Prague/Dresden trip. I’m not really a fan of being in a group and going places. I had a bad experience in high school where every single minute of a trip was planned and it was just horrible. Therefore, I assumed that IES would probably like that too. Surprisingly, our little day trips have been very lax and really fun and I’m warming up to group trips. So ERGO – I’m going on the Prague/Dresden trip!
(Italiano)
Una delle mie amiche di Cornell, che studia la moda a Parigi, è venuta a Milano la settimana scorsa, e ci siamo divertite un sacco. Per caso, è stata anche Milano Moda Donna, dunque siamo andate alle sfilate per vedere la gente e tutti gli abiti pazzeschi. Anche se non potevamo entrare, è stato incredibile essere sulla scena e interagire con gli altri appassionati della moda!
(English)
“One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you’d love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I’ve never been here before today?” -Frances Mayes
A little over a year ago I visited Japantown in Los Angeles searching for one thing: a red Daruma doll. They were surprisingly hard to come by. A lot of the dolls stocked by the stores were yellow, pink, white, purple–no red ones, oddly. But I refused to settle for less. The red ones were iconic, and I wasn’t going to stop trying until I found one.
If you couldn’t tell by my thorough description of the Calçotada in one of my previous posts, I am a die-hard foodie. Since coming to Barcelona, that realization has never been more clear to me. I find myself constantly talking about food and daydreaming about what the night’s dinner could possibly be.
(Italiano)
Today marks my second day volunteering at CENIT, a nonprofit in the south of Quito, so I thought I’d write a little bit about the organization and my experience working there thus far. CENIT, which stands for El Centro de la Niña Trabajadora (Center for the (girl) child worker), is a nonprofit organization that aims to help youth in the south of Quito by providing them with a variety of services, ranging from healthcare (both physical and mental) to education. I actually first found out about CENIT through a local Irish pub.
