I’ve discovered that the hardest part of travelling abroad is actually learning how to live at home again. This article I found on a blog called Under the African Skies sums it up very nicely: https://london2cape.com/adventure-travel/the-hardest-part-of-travelling/ After coming home again from travelling, everything is different inside and everything at home is the same. More than just appearances…
Missing the Metro
This will be brief. But, can I just say that I miss the public transportation system in France. My college is small and in the middle of a very (very) rural area, and I grew up in a small town. So I am used to the idea of driving everywhere and long car trips. In…
The Travel Companion & the Pluses and Minuses of Executing the International Buddy System
I thought to make a pros and cons list of travelling with a friend based on my own experience this past May. In my case, I went to Paris with my best friend for a whole month, and while we’ve never reached the limit of our tolerance for one another historically, I was a…
Failure on the Alliance Express: A tale of tragedy, but then Flan
So it all ended with Flan. Flan if you didn’t know improves everything, unless you are not a flan fan which means you’re probably incapable of feeling happiness. That’s unfortunate. The start of my second day in France was equally unfortunate. It began with failure at the Alliance Francaise. The whole point of this trip…
Luckily I was Depressed. . .
I decided to make this blog about my trip to France in May. I wanted to write it in retrospect because for me, worrying about categorizing experiences every day in my head so I can blog about them daily ruins it for me. I prefer to experience things to the fullest extent then sort how I feel about them in retrospect. That being said, with this blog, I hope to share my reflective experiences in Paris to help convince other students to get out and travel