The Mountains Echo
Posted August 5, 2017
Welcome to Sarajevo. It is now week 3, and I have had some time to become acquainted with this city after the bittersweet departure...Category: History
Integration
Posted July 7, 2017
I am writing you from a shop in Kreuzberg, a district of Berlin. Kreuzberg is an area that pretty perfectly demonstrates the constantly evolving...
The Beauty of Palimpsests
Posted July 6, 2017
If I were to characterize the city of Belgrade, I would have to say that it seems to be both a pastiche of the...
Week 2 in Belgrade
Posted July 5, 2017
I can’t believe week 2 is over. Since getting here, we have been learning a lot. In this blog I will be discussing topics...
Dobrodosli u Beograd– Welcome to Belgrade!
Posted June 26, 2017
This first week in Belgrade has been very eye-opening and fascinating. I am enjoying learning about the rich history of this...
More Thoughts on Kruger National Park
Posted May 23, 2017
Seeing Kruger did make me sad that humans had wiped out the majority of this biodiversity throughout the rest of South Africa (as well...
Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Posted May 10, 2017
In 1994, South Africa officially ended apartheid, a period of segregation, violence, and discrimination on the basis of race. It is what Mandela and...
Robben Island
Posted April 3, 2017
The cell in which Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for his 18 years on Robben Island. On April 8, 2017, we took a bus tour...
我看不懂汉字(I see, but don’t understand Chinese characters.)
Posted December 20, 2016
When I first landed in Hong Kong, only of the most striking features of the new city-scape was, naturally, that Chinese characters were everywhere....
Hemingway’s Paris
Posted December 1, 2016
My host brother is singing dangerously loud in his room across the hall from me. I’ve picked up a new read for the daily Metro...