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
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
First and foremost, I apologize in my lapse in posting. Perhaps it is really only my mum that keeps track of the days (hours, minutes, seconds…) between posts, but trust me she knows better than me. Sometimes, she is the only reason the post goes live at all. Coming home from Work Away, I … More Sweet Dreams are Made of Cheese
Despite the hiccups and stress, I would absolutely do Work Away again and recommend it to anyone. It was a cheap way to travel, gave you me a great tan and hard workout, but the best part was the ability to meet kind people. Now there aren’t any … More From Tents to Trulli
I’m back! After three weeks pretty much entirely without internet, and most of the time also without cell phone service, I am back. I missed you guys…and internet… It was a great three weeks, but started out challenging me as a traveler. I had to go back to the basics. Whats the rule of … More Back to the Future, Part IV
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