While this space is usually a place for my personal thoughts and reflections, it is important to use the spaces and platforms you have access to in order to promote important stories. Seyda and Seda display a passion, courage, and perseverance that is an example to all, and their story should be heard. It was […]
Read more "Immigrant, Fabulous, and Proud of It"Endings are funny things. Three days ago, I felt pretty ready to go home. I haven’t seen my family since May, and with final projects piling up, it’s easy to think that things could be better. But today? I’m really going to miss this place and people. A wonderful belated Thanksgiving with my host family […]
Read more "Transitions"I tried to write a post about my travel week, which was incredible- honestly one of the most memorable weeks of my life. I spent my time in London in Budapest; we went to a rivalry soccer match and sat surrounded by other Arsenal fans giving, and receiving, absolute hell to/from Tottenham fans, we saw […]
Read more "This week/helpers"I wrote a piece for DIScover Study Abroad about my time in Stockholm, where DIS will be opening a program next fall. You can read it here! I just returned from London (and I am in love) so I’ll be writing on that soon 🙂 Cheers!
Read more "Taking Stock(holm)"A week back in Copenhagen and I’m still not quite over Florence, so bear with me. With the wonderful food, constant golden hour, and incredible art, it is simply a place like no other. It feels different. You don’t even have to squint that hard to imagine yourself back in the time of the Medici. The […]
Read more "magic, genius, and the golden hour"A minute to appreciate Italian food. It’s not complicated; I had possibly the best lunch of my life today and it consisted of pasta with seafood and a house white wine. Granted when you’re in the Cinque Terre, home to some of the best seafood and white wine on the planet, it’s hard to mess […]
Read more "Il Cinque Terre"I admit it, my last few posts have been very serious and long, so I’m going to turn the tables on that a little bit. I’ve now been in Copenhagen for almost exactly two months, and what’s standing out to me is that it’s really feeling like home. When I came back from Berlin, I […]
Read more "Home away from home"The Jewish museum in Berlin was not built for comfort. A response to and a departure from the traditional Classical and Baroque style found in many European museums, Daniel Libeskind’s modern design accesses and discombobulates the senses in countless ways. The three intersecting corridors that compose the bulk of the place come together without a […]
Read more "Where we walk/where we stand"To anyone who knows me personally, it is probably no surprise that I hate being seen as a tourist. On the first day of DIS, being part of the pack of over a thousand Americans flooding out of the Royal Academy of Music after the opening ceremonies was the stuff of nightmares. Maybe it’s a […]
Read more "Let’s Be Tourists!"After an intense and busy week, it was off to Oslo to spend the weekend with an old friend, but more on that in a minute. I’ve been thinking (marveling, really) lately at how leaving the country and stepping outside of my usual network has thrown a light on how the modern world really is […]
Read more "Small World/Oslo"
4973 to the east 