friday was pure chance, luck, and fun. thursday night, we spent the evening at one of our favorite pubs: the dail bar. and we decided we wanted to go somewhere. see something. do anything. "let's go to dublin!" so friday morning, my roommate lauren and i struggled to wake up early but we...

...one that in Krakow is not all that well known. The riverside route that I walked to get to and from my Polish classes a few neighborhoods away over the semester break was luckily a very pleasant, pretty and entertaining one! All along the Vistula River (Wisła in Polish) in the city are foot/bike paths...

oh paris. strangely, i didn’t think i would like paris as much as i did. i’ve been to quite a few cities in my day… san francisco, new york, london, dublin, los angeles… and for the most part every city is a city. but paris was just extraordinary. the history, the beauty, and...

...and hearing it's one of the toughest did not put me at ease! Serwus! (Greetings!) ;-) During most of the month of February I was on my semester break, since, as I mentioned in a past post , the Polish school calendar is set up a bit later than the US one. Combined with the Christmas break, it...

Interest in China Continues to Grow, Fueled by Obama Administration's "100,000 Strong Initiative" Chester, Pennsylvania (February 17, 2011) - StudyAbroad.com, the Internet’s leading resource for study abroad and language programs with more than 210,000 monthly visitors, today released...

...and apparently St. Nicholas had already been there! So, this is the last of my winter break posts - good thing I guess, since it's late February already and my second long break, the semester break, is almost over and will need to be written about soon! But, since I traveled to several very interesting...