First Blog Post
Posted November 29, 2018
After having some initial trouble setting up by account, I am finally ready to make a blog post. I have been in Paris for...Category: Trips & Excursions
living my best tourist life
Posted November 16, 2018
UCL has a really strange term set up; reading week is the first week of November but exams are mid-December. Consequently, this week doesn’t...
Fun Weekend
Posted November 6, 2018
This past weekend, the program travelled to the northern port city of Hamburg. The city is a key German port of commerce and...
A Change in Pace
Posted November 6, 2018
On a more serious note, this past weekend was spent in the quaint town of Weimar where the program visited a nearby concentration...
History repeats itself
Posted November 2, 2018
Learning about the intense history of Bosnia has been heartbreaking and heavy, yet it has allowed me to reflect on my own life and...
Back in the States
Posted October 17, 2018
It’s only been a couple days since I’ve gotten back and it’s been weird. But, I can say for sure that the jet lag...
Being home
Posted October 17, 2018
After being back in the country for a month, I feel somewhat lost. There was so much to do in Beijing, every day felt...
Getting Acclimated
Posted October 17, 2018
It’s been a month in Beijing already. We have finished taking our finals for the first part of Chinese. I think it went smoothly!...
Maybe too far from home?
Posted October 8, 2018
I am back in the States, back at Northwestern. And the culture shock is back, too. As I said in my first blog post, being...
In the End
Posted October 8, 2018
At the end of the program, I did not go back home straight away. Instead, I traveled to the southern part of China. With...