February 2009
1 post
massive update; better late than never
Dear family and friends,
As always, I have to start off by apologizing for being so long between updates on my life abroad, but I happen to have a decent amount of free time at the moment and hope that you all with bare with me while I give you a full description of the travels, mishaps and adventures that I have had since my last email. I’m not exactly sure when I last wrote you all, but...
September 2008
5 posts
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First Abroad Column
Here is the copy, along with the link, to my first abroad column for the UCSD Guardian, my home newspaper:
I had never been to Lyon before, but as soon as I arrived it was immediately clear why every person I consulted while choosing a city in which to study suggested Lyon without hesitation. My landlord met me at the train station, and after we dropped off my bags at his house, he and his wife...
Summary of France so far
got into Paris on August 6th (wow, that seems like such a long time ago at this point) after a day of traveling that included three flights with lay-overs in North Carolina and Philadelphia that lasted a combined 14 hours. I spent my first 5 days hanging out in Paris with my friend Ben at his house. His parents were on vacation so it was just me and Ben with all of Paris at our dispossal. We spent...
August 2008
1 post
Arrival (even if posted 2 weeks late...)
8 August 2008 After many years of daydreaming and months of hard work and planning, I am finally in France. To get to the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris I first had to take the red-eye flight from San Francisco to Charlotte, North Carolina where I had a 10-hour layover before hoping on a quick flight to Philadelphia where I finally boarded a plane to jump the pond. It was a combination of my...
July 2008
1 post
Two weeks left
With less than two weeks to go before I hop on my flight to France the magnitude of what I am about to undertake is starting to set in. Of course I have my worried about not being able to speak French quite as well as I would like to and about budgeting enough money to last me the year, but more than being nervous about leaving I could not be more excited about what lays ahead.
Later this week I...
June 2008
2 posts
“Now go out and have fun this week, but the Gilder Lehrman Institute would like...”
Summer is finally here
As my first ever blog entry, and as somebody who has not really gotten much sleep for the past three weeks, I must first apologize for the unstructured writing and wandering ideas that follow:
After making a quick, 14-hour stop back home in San Francisco a week and a half ago I am preparing to finally get back to the city and let summer get under way. After finishing my last final of spring...