When I arrived in this sleepy little town in the middle of farm fields, I had no idea everything the next nine months would entail. To be honest, I really didn’t know what I was studying exactly (the only idea I had, turned out to be kinda, a bit, pretty much wrong). I had 150 … More Last Views from the Rear-view Mirror
“A year from now, we’ll all be gone, all our friends will go away. And they’re going to better places, but our friends will be gone away. Nothing is as it has been and I’ll miss your face like hell. But I guess its just as well, I miss your face like hell…” Rivers & … More 27 Gastronomes Walk Out of The Pollenzo Bubble
Following the sounds of Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas being sung off key, the kitchen door of the UNISG Gastronomic Society swung open to reveal my Thanksgiving counterpart buzzing around nursing three pots, an oven, and a cutting board with a half-chopped onion. Greeted by a wall of smells of turkey … More All You Need Is Food, Friends, and Thanksgiving
My planner (and life) is currently full of things I need to do; preparations for Thanksgiving dinner Thursday, the seven papers to write before I leave, lists of what is to be packed or stay in storage, skype meetings with potential internships and random sticky notes of projects to complete, friends to meet up … More Need a Bit of Air
*No photos because my camera was full and I couldn’t connect to wifi to clear it on the cloud 😦 .* 22 hours. That’s all the time we had in China on our way to India. Leaving from Japan, I was off with my friend, Rifka, on the next grand adventure to see her … More Chill Out China
I never understood the term, “as far as the east is from the west”. That is until I spent the last 10 days in Japan. The difference is astounding. After doing all the cultural research and mapping your moves, you think you’re ready. Truth be told, I don’t know that you can ever be … More As Far as the East is From the West
Japan, suddenly “land of the rising sun” makes sense. Not only does the sun rise obnoxiously early but apparently the trade off is for it to set obnoxiously early as well. The sun is down by 4:30 or 5pm each day which only adds to our jetlag and need for sleep. The seven hour … More Land of the Rising Sun
After 15 hours of flying, 6 hours on a bus and 7 time zones, we are finally in Japan. It’s last study trip with my class, which feels a bit weird in itself. And in a location that I never had on my bucketlist but after only nine hours in this … More Konnichi wa Japan!
‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the … More Becoming Versus Growing Up
To anyone that asked me in the months leading up to my move to Italy, or even in the past six months of living abroad, my response to if I wanted to move back to the United States was always, not for the next decade or so. But how does that saying go? Make … More The Pride of an Immigrant
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