Sara’s abroad in Paris, France, until Dec. 13.

The past week was either an invasion of parents or an exodus from France for kids studying abroad in Paris. For me, my mom and aunt came in from the States to spend Thanksgiving in the City of Lights.
While they were here, I felt a strange combination of [...]

Alex is abroad in Munich, Germany, until August 2009.

Four turkeys, 28 pounds of mashed potatoes, eight pies, two pots of gravy, three bowls of stuffing and more beer and wine than I could count.  Despite the total lack of European recognition of Thanksgiving, my program celebrated the American holiday together in style.
We started organizing our [...]

Megan’s abroad in London, England, until Dec. 13.

It’s really hard to find a turkey in London. You wouldn’t think so, and neither did I until I looked around Sainsbury’s, our local grocery store. Turkey’s not a big thing to eat here — as one of my British friends said, nobody eats turkey here except for [...]

Laura’s abroad in Amman, Jordan, until Dec. 19.

Sometimes when I reflect on my study abroad experience here in Jordan, I just laugh at all the bizarre situations I get myself into. For example, somehow I ended up practically alone on the dance floor trying to do my best imitation of Arabic dancing at a Palestinian [...]

With Thanksgiving only days away and festive lights overtaking Evanston, the time of year has become blatantly obvious. ‘Tis the holiday season — a season for eating gelt and decorating pine trees. But it wouldn’t be the holidays without the right mood music. Here we have collected some great Christmas songs and covers to help [...]

Alex is abroad in Munich, Germany, until August 2009.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, the ground is covered in snow and I had to fork over some Euros for a pair of gloves. The official transition into winter marks the end of fall, and the end of fall concert tours. Somehow quite a [...]

Alex is abroad in Munich, Germany, until August 2009.

It wasn’t until recently when I was comparing stories from classes at LMU, the German university that I attend, with my program friends, that I realized just how awkward university classes can be for us here.  Let’s take one of my classes as an example: Marketing Communication [...]

Northwestern added another accolade to an already impressive season on Monday when Kevin Mims was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in Saturday’s game against Illinois. Mims, a defensive end, kept Illinois’s league-leading offense in check with two and a half sacks, seven tackles and credit for a forced [...]

Laura’s abroad in Amman, Jordan until Dec. 19.

My family has been talking for weeks about the annual trip to the small, “forested” village of Ajloun to get their year’s supply of fresh-pressed olive oil. After all, ‘tis the season for olive harvesting. At my school building, we picked all our olives weeks ago to donate [...]

Cover of Zeitgeist

Back in 1988, the Smashing Pumpkins played their first show at the Metro theater in Chicago. This Friday at the Auditorium Theater, the Pumpkins celebrated 20 years of music (or “20 years of burning bridges,” as lead singer Billy Corgan put it) with the third of four shows in their hometown and the [...]

Sara’s abroad in Paris, France, until Dec. 13.

At the beginning of the program in Paris our director Bruno told us that we’d experience a mood curve during our stay in France. We’d be really really excited at the beginning (true), and then in November our moods would slowly start to dip when everything started to [...]

Laura’s abroad in Amman, Jordan until Dec. 19.

After listening to the call to prayer five times a day for the past three months, I decided to get back in touch with my own religion. Two weeks ago I went with an American friend and my host family’s Sri Lankan maid to St. George’s Cathedral, which [...]

Marisa’s abroad in Madrid, Spain, until Dec. 19.

After spending my free time this summer watching the Euro Cup on ESPN every day, I was pumped to finally have the chance to see some “football” in person at a Real Madrid game. Last night, I finally made it to Santiago Bernabeu stadium to see Real [...]

This blog has written (quite mentally, in retrospect) about Tama, the stationmaster cat, before. For those new to the party, Tama is a cat who technically is the stationmaster at a railway station somewhere in rural Japan. Tama wears a hat, waves at outgoing trains and sleeps in a glass box. CNN [...]