Hannah & Julie
roommates, technically adults, writers on the side.
Dammit, you guys, I did it. I blinked. I blinked, and it’s all over. I’m back in the states and happily overwhelmed with the rush of familiarity and the time difference. I’m going to leave you with the last thing I ever wrote in Ireland. I’m sitting in my gate at Cork Airport, waiting to …
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” –Paul Theroux Friends, this is my last post before I leave for home. (If you remember that I used this quote to start my last post before I left for Spain, ten points to your Hogwarts house. If you’re not sure which Hogwarts …
There’s nothing quite like the surge of nostalgia you get when you realize you’re doing something for the last time. You’re sitting in a booth of your favorite pub surrounded by everyone who means a lot to you, and it hits you that this is the last time that these people will all gather together …
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you feel comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” -Clifton Fadiman My second week in Spain, I decided to travel from Granada to Madrid to spend a few days with my cousin Kristina. (For those of you who have …
I returned home yesterday from a two-week Eurotrip. It began in Cork then moved on to Granada in Spain, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Athens, some Greek islands, and Rome. This trip has been a long time coming; on orientation day, my first day in Cork, we were handed a schedule for the semester and told that we …
I chose the enormous picture at the top of this page because it sums up a pretty big portion of how my friends and I have been spending this semester: Being huge idiots and sticking out like sore thumbs. Recently, Hannah and I realized something cool about our time in Europe. For five months of …
“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.” –Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl Today my story looks like this: I heard “Going Down For Real” by Flo Rida in my favorite café over breakfast …
The bond formed between people who’ve been plopped into a foreign country where they don’t know a single soul is pretty unique to the study abroad experience, and it’s the stuff of fairy tales. Allow me to explain. So it’s a Wednesday like any other, no big deal. Except for the fact that you’ve just …
Hannah (8:44 am): Running on 3 hours of sleep, about to go tour all day and train home again tonight Hannah (8:45 am): Might die Julie (8:46 am): That sounds like the study abroad experience in a nutshell Julie (8:46 am): PUSH THROUGH YOU GOT THIS Before I came abroad, I had a lot of …
At this point, it’s probably not a surprise to you twelve dedicated readers that Hannah and I sometimes leave writing these posts until the last minute. In fact, we’ve been banking pretty hard on the fact that the East Coast is five hours behind in order to get these posts out on time. At least, …