Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Seriously. Life can’t be this good, and I feel like I’m overdue for some seriously bad news. I’m in the middle of my internship at NATO (the Claremont Colleges’ connection to NATO is one of the reasons I chose CMC), and I love it. All of my studies have been devoted to foreign relations and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
My host father explained to me (in English) that their oldest son plays hooky every day, but important exams are coming up in a couple weeks so he’s going to be very busy… may even need to stop playing hooky. I figured going to class the couple weeks before exams would indeed be beneficial [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Flight: Very beginning: Surrounded by over-perfumed old ladies (isn’t airplane etiquette to forgo the perfume??) and screaming babies. Early middle: Watched Marley and Me. Why I decided to do that on a plane, when I know fully well that I bawled through the last few chapters of the book, is beyond me. Middle: I watched [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
As Wes continues to tell me, I never really wrapped up my semester in Germany, did I? The last few weeks were a flurry of school projects, Weihnachtmarkts (Christmas Markets), and realizing how much I loved Freiburg and would miss it when I’m gone.
Now that that wrap-up is done, onto the really good news: I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
The coffee situation in Germany is terrible. If you need caffeine (and seeing as I have class from 9am to 7:45 pm twice a week, I often do), you usually go to a bakery, plop down €1.50, or about $1.85, for about three or four spoonfuls of disgusting sludge that somewhat smells of coffee. Starbucks, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2008 No Comments »
After yet another long week of class, I headed over to Barcelona with two friends. The way to the airport was uneventful (once we figured out that the Karlsruhe airport is actually in Baden-Baden.) The flight was nearly uneventful. For the second flight to Spain in a row, we shared a plane with a group [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2008 3 Comments »
Grenoble, France: I’m walking to dinner, minding my own business. A little girl comes up to me and says, “Excuse me, mademoiselle, are you married?” I think she’s just a kid being a kid, so I lean down and tell her that I’m too young but I hope to one day find a handsome, charming [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
When I returned from Eastern Europe, I had an awful week consisting of being sick, writing three papers, and finishing my State Department application. As a reward for that week, I had booked myself a trip with four friends to Majorca, an island off the coast of Spain. (If you’ve heard of Ibiza, Majorca is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Be forewarned, I’m writing this on a German keyboard, and this post will probably have many typos. Again, picture links are in the password-protected page and on facebook.
Budapest, Hungary: My first morning in beautiful Budapest, I went to two meetings at the Central European University, an American-accredited graduate school that PAYS most of its students, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2008 No Comments »
I am getting way too much spam on my blog, so I decided to password protect any post with photo links. I don’t want all the creepers posting comments with links to porn, viagra, xanax, etc to be looking at them. If you are facebook friends with me, you can of course still view the [...]