Thoughts from the Teddy Bear-Covered Couch
Posted June 22, 2015
I intended on writing this blog during the 8 hour layover between my flight from New York City to Amsterdam. Instead, I’m writing this...Category: Global Health
First peek at Peking!
Posted June 20, 2015
When I was younger, my mother prepared a homemade workbook of Chinese characters for me to learn and copy. In my attempts to avoid...
Saving Individuals, Not the World: 900 Children of Hangberg
Posted June 18, 2015
In the community of Hangberg, a part of the greater Cape Town area, the population struggles with drug addiction, mental health problems, crowded living...
“Winter” Is Coming?
Posted May 14, 2015
So the other day, I was talking to a few other people in the program about our upcoming trip to the Garden Route (along...
Goeie Dag, Molweni, Hello
Posted April 14, 2015
I think I’ve always taken language for granted, living in a country and a community where pretty much everyone I’ve ever needed to communicate...
Anxious Aloof American Abroad
Posted March 30, 2015
I had always known since I arrived on Northwestern’s campus as a naive freshman with zero knowledge of anything, that my undergraduate career will...
WOW: How I’m Cheating My Pre-Departure Blog Post
Posted March 30, 2015
Thanks to some technical difficulties back in the States, I am currently writing you all from an internet cafe called WOW in downtown Stellenbosch....
Today Is the Day!
Posted March 30, 2015
Hi blog readers! My name is Emily Liquin, and I’m a junior at Northwestern. I’ve been preparing for months, but I can’t believe I’m...
A Cold Return to Evanston
Posted March 16, 2015
Christian Dayal, Public Health in Europe, Fall 2014 After spending a semester abroad in Paris, coming back to Evanston has been quite the experience....
Retour aux États-Unis
Posted March 16, 2015
Cory Goldman, NU in Paris, Fall 2014 As of today, I’ve been back in the United States for around two and a half months....