Expedites I Will Never Forget
Posted July 31, 2018
A class I have been enjoying so much has been Culture & History of Mexico. Every class I am learning more and more about...Tag: history
Folklórico Fills My Heart With The Sound Of Music
Posted July 31, 2018
On Sunday night, I checked off an item from my bucket list: watching the Ballet Folkórico de México de Amalia Hernández. I have procrastinated...
Historical Perspectives
Posted July 10, 2018
A garden that should be seen as a place of beauty with bright green leaves overheard letting in slim rays of sun is immediately...
A Reflection on the Serbian Worldview
Posted July 5, 2018
It is truly amazing what you can learn about a people or culture by simply living among them. In the past week, we have...
Settling in, but seeing new places
Posted January 23, 2018
We have finally settled in at Stellenbosch for a few weeks, and we have begun to get into a routine. As someone studying Industrial...
Trip to Arles
Posted October 23, 2017
As part of the Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought program, we got to visit the south of France. I have to admit, I...
Meditations on a Concentration Camp
Posted October 5, 2017
The European Union Studies program took a trip to Strasbourg to see the Council of Europe and the EU parliament at Strasbourg. Before visiting...
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...
Muchas Catedrales
Posted August 1, 2016
“There’s only two weeks left?”-Basically how everyone in the program feels at this point. Everyone always tells you that your time abroad will go...
#OPENSTELLENBOSCH… but is it actually closed?
Posted September 8, 2015
On one of our museum trips, we watched a short documentary about the Soweto Uprising. We had the opportunity to watch real footage of...