2/10/17 – Friday, 14:00 Boston, MA I’m about to spend the next six months just about as far away from home as I can comfortably imagine. One Eighteen hour flight and nine-thousand miles away, is the University of Canterbury. It still blows my mind – just a few generations ago this journey would have taken […]
As I write this, it is my first day working in the Scottish Parliament, and I am in the parliament cafe with a cup of coffee in hand, a little worried for what the day has in store for me. I am anxious and excited to meet the Member of Parliament I will be working […]
During the autumn semester of 2016, I studied abroad in Granada, Spain for three and a half months. It was such a pleasant and wonderful experience that I do not regret the difficult process I had to go through to ensure a successful journey. I had already visited Barcelona and Madrid prior to this, but […]
This past month I have completed finals, completed midterms, caught a 3-week flu and moved back to America. Somehow despite all this I am still here, alive and kicking, at Wheaton. That’s right folks, I’m back in the good ol’ USA, home to Trump-Daitoryo as they would say back at my old university. Last semester […]
Rewind two years to fall 2014. Eryn Hoang is a first-year at Wheaton College. Having left Boston before starting middle school, she comes from a small suburban town close to and much like Norton and commutes to school every day. She continues taking French courses but doesn’t think she’ll major in the subject. She goes […]
I’ve been living in Copenhagen, Denmark for almost two months now, and I was not expecting it to feel this normal. I haven’t been hit by any homesickness yet, so I’m crossing my fingers that it doesn’t happen at all. This is the first time I’ve been outside of North America, and the first time […]
My experience from studying abroad for a year in two different countries: As I’m getting ready to go back to the United States and face responsibilities such as applying for law school, working a job, applying for fellowships, and seeing myself in the near future where I no longer will be in college, I am […]
I can still remember when I was back at Wheaton, just planning for my study abroad trip to the University of Sussex. I thought I had everything figured out. I always assumed that there would be no culture shock whatsoever, because really, out of every country in the world I could have studied abroad in, […]
I have just hit my two-month mark in Granada, Spain and to be quite honest, it still doesn’t feel real. I feel as if I’m in a dream and any moment I’ll wake up and be in Norton, Massachusetts. Southern Spain is something unlike I’ve ever experienced before. From the tapas culture, to the “no […]
“¡Hola!” from Valencia, Spain! It’s hard to believe that in one week I will have been living in Spain for two months. Ever since the beginning of the semester, I have been planning trips throughout Europe, with my eyes set on the middle of March for all of my trips and suddenly, it’s here! As […]