Julie will be in Paris, France until Dec. 17.

My sociology professor would kill me if she read this post.
She’s always saying three months is not enough time to pass judgment on an entire culture, that we’re too Americanized to admit that our way might not be the best and that our arguments aren’t nuanced enough.
Of [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

One of my most enjoyable experiences traveling abroad has been staying in hostels with a motley crew of impoverished students and professionals in their late twenties and thirties who’ve decided to travel the world for six months instead of buying a Ferrari. Meeting a bunch of strangers [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

Writing this blog has been hard. As you might have been able to tell from a few recent half-assed posts, I just don’t know what to write about. I’ve had thoughts that I’m willing to share like “you can buy boxed lunches everywhere in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh [...]

Julie will be in Paris, France until Dec. 17.

Parisians are very private.
It’s evident everywhere, from the well-groomed denizens of the Metro who keep their noses firmly ensconced in their books without so much as a wayward glance toward the bald man in the purple dress singing and asking for money, to the waiter at the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Read about Megan’s continuing adventures in merry old London, England.

Read about Megan’s continuing adventures in merry old London, England.

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

Still smelling the salt of the Dead Sea on my skin, I’ve returned from a trip through the south of Jordan. This is the Jordan of legends: the awe-inspiring Petra, sunrises over Wadi Rum, sunsets over Aqaba’s sparkling aqua water, quiet valleys in Dana, and the salty depths [...]

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

Last night, as I sat in the lobby of the Gran Via Hilton drinking white wine after class with Ally and my friend Christine, who was in from Paris, I had an epiphany. Unlike most semi-drunken epiphanies, this one still held water the next day. As [...]

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

Since I arrived in Jordan, almost everyone I met, taxi drivers and lecturers alike, asked me who I would vote for in the U.S. presidential elections. I always said “Obama, of course!” and they would reward me with a big smile. But many of the people I met [...]

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

This past week was Toussaint –- a week break that the Paris program gives to students because we’re doing a semester here instead of a quarter. Basically, it’s like spring break in November. I had originally wanted to go to Italy during the break, but after looking at [...]

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

For the last two years, each time I would get an illness of some kind that reached beyond the “these are normal symptoms of a cold” plane, I would give Searle (the doctor’s office at NU) a ring, and set up an appointment for sometime within the [...]

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

First, read what Marisa thought about the American election before the results started coming in.
After staying up until 5 a.m. to see Obama’s victory safely sealed, I slept through class until noon. When I woke up, the first thing I did was watch his victory speech, which [...]