Of adventures and retellings

Hello everyone! My apologies for leaving you all hanging after my last post for a few months. No, I have not been in Europe for this whole time (for those of you who were concerned) however the summer was full of working and such things, therefore I never caught up with everything I wanted to … Continue reading →

Si tu n’oses pas, tu ne traverses jamais..

The title of this post comes from one of my more profound moments in Paris, one whose importance I only recently realized. One of my first days in Paris, I was walking around my quarter and trying to cross this street to get to the street my apartment is on. This street is only busy … Continue reading →

We live in a beautiful world, yeah we do

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” -E. B. White This quote by … Continue reading →

Spring Break Adventures Part II: Reutlingen, Germany!

I’ve decided to give Germany its own post because of how many pictures I want to put into this one and I don’t want to get cut off with a file limit or something halfway through. For the second part of my spring break, I headed across the French/German border to Reutlingen, a smaller city … Continue reading →

In the Queue for an English Adventure

For the majority of my week long break in between classes and my internship, I took off across the channel on the Eurostar (not via ferry, for those of you curious as to whether I repeated the Great Seasick Expedition of 2006… I did not. There’s not enough Dramamine in the world to make me … Continue reading →

Life moves pretty fast.

I am currently writing to you all from the ecstatic state of post-finals-syndrome! I can’t believe that my classes are over and that my internship begins in a little over a week. This may sound strange, (and I may have said this before), but it simultaneously feels as though I just got here and that … Continue reading →

Love actually is all around.

Hello again! Hope you all had a wonderful 14th of February yesterday, or the Day of Saint Valentine as it’s known here. I decided that the City of Love itself would be my Valentine, considering I have definitely fallen in love with this amazing city. I can’t believe that I’ve been here a little over … Continue reading →

Paris 101: A Healthy Dose of Culture

It’s been a really busy week here with lots of projects, presentations, and studying going on. Not that I’m going to bore you all with that, however. I could talk about Matisse and the critics’ writings on his paintings at the Salon d’Automne that sparked the fauvism movement..but I won’t. 🙂 I wanted to start … Continue reading →

I live in a fairy tale land.

Or at least that’s what I feel like 95% of the time. For example, what other city in the world has a huge monument that a) basically signifies the city itself whenever people see it, b) has literally no practical function whatsoever, c) lights up at night time, and d) SPARKLES on the hour?! I … Continue reading →

100% Pure Condensed Paris

For those of you who know me, you know that I have a fairly fluid concept of time. Fluid meaning, well, I’m a habitually late person. Regarding my blog, we’re going to explore a different aspect of my fluid understanding of time–a lack of chronologically accurate stories! Who wants to be all chronologically orderly, anyway? … Continue reading →