Xin Jao! Greetings from Vietnam! So here are some interesting things about my trip so far (for the day I’ve been here). The country of Vietnam is SO CLEAN! When I left Indira Gandhi International in New Delhi this past summer, I was met with the stench of stale urine and auto exhaust thick enough …
Hola, amigos! I am very excited to share my experiences with all of you back in Chicago. I have been in Santiago, Chile for exactly one week. It has been a crazy 7 days!! I have never felt so excited and so scared at the same time. I think everyone needs to feel these emotions …
It is not too often that someone can say “In four days I will be over 7,200 miles away from my current location, in a foreign culture where I barely speak the language” but when it can be said, it’s definitely a wake-up call. Especially for me, who has spent most of the past two …
After a good night sleep post 3 5 hour energy drinks (and others…) and 20 hours of continual flight across the world wide awake, I was ready to hit the ground running in Vietnam! I woke my roommate and we ventured out of the dorm into the streets. The night before they had been dormant …
Hola amigos, As I sit on the balcony of my school in Puntarenas, Costa Rica which overlooks the Pacific Ocean I decided that now is better than ever to start my study abroad blog. I’ve been here for a little over a week now and feel like I’ve adapted to the way of life pretty …
I’m still in Missouri waiting for my semester in Ireland to start. I’m not looking forward to the 16 inches of snow that is supposed to start falling an hour before my flight leaves on Tuesday. Hopefully I’ll be able to get out of here on time. I’ll write more when I get there.
Ahlan wa Sahlan! I’ve been in Oman for three days now, and it is something else. This past summer I spent a month in France with a Loyola study abroad program. After my time here, I can say that I feel more welcome in Oman than I ever did in France. Everyone is here is …
As my Facebook homepage becomes bombarded with Chicago “Snowcalypse” pictures and my roommates tell me about their hibernation into our ground level apartment complete with tea and incense burning I can’t help but feel a little jealous I’m missing out on Loyola’s snow day. However my jealousy faded while remembering the past weekend and the …
So I moved in with my host family a few days ago. To help protect their anonymity I’m giving them ironic American names. There’s George, the father, Rachel, the mother, Billy-Ray, 11, Max, 10, Elizabeth, 6, and of course little Hannah Montana, 4. The house itself is mostly outside, surrounded by large cement walls. Then there’s …
I know I said I would pick up from breakfast, but lets fast forward a week to NOW and then after this blog I can backtrack a little bit. While the students back home in Chicago are off school for a blizzard, I am off school to celebrate Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year which …