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Do Hamburgers eat hamburgers?
Last week, I taught 5 Thanksgiving lessons. Meaning, I taught the same lesson five times. Three times on Tuesday, each class back-to-back. That was a little surreal. All of my classes thought...
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Belfast Bound
Mid-November brought with it our second and last IFSA-Butler sponsored trip, and it was one we’d all been waiting for since we arrived in Ireland. Not only is Belfast one of the top ten cities in...
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Watery Waterford
It was raining in Waterford. Ha. Ha. Ha. Unfortunately, I can’t blame the name for calling down the rain since it is an Anglicization of the Norse vedrafjordr, or “ram’s fjord.” I also can’t blame the...
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Florence & the Machine, a Düsseldorf post
“We are Florence & the Machine. We have come from England. And we have come for human sacrifices!” Yes, I did indeed spend 16 hours round-trip, traveling from Greifswald to Düsseldorf and back....
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I Survived Yoga
Happy Belated St. Nikolaus Tag! Okay, so it was yesterday, but yesterday, I went to yoga, and narrowly escaped with my life, so please forgive me for not writing this last night. Let me back up. On...
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Routine
As winter approaches and the world slows down around me, I inevitably find myself slowing too. Consequently, my writing becomes more infrequent and all of life’s little unexpected hiccups seem to be...
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Perugia and EuroCioc2012 — October 21-23
Wow. I can’t believe I lied and said that I would post every week – but honestly, it’s so difficult to keep up with everything when there’s SO MUCH to do! Last weekend, I went to Siena with my program...
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Toscana – Siena, Montalcino and the Sant’Antimo Monastery — October 26-28
SO the weekend after Eurocioc, my program decided to take us on a little excursion to TUSCANY. And, might I add, the excursion was, say, 4… 5 hours by bus? Not a little excursion at all, by any means,...
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Phom saawrn pasa an grit
Insight on the profession of teaching from a thirteen-year-old: “In the present, I’m still a student. Don’t have special life or any money, but I’ve a lot of occupation in my dream that I hope one of...
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It’s Christmas in Killarney…
…with [none] of the folks from home. So, lads and lassies, it is my final post for 2012! I had intended to write up two more after this, one featuring Corkian Christmas festivities and one featuring an...
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Dealing With Last-Minute Fear
Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. That’s an Irish saying I heard the other day that’s stuck with me (the Irish call their language Irish, though we Americans also call it Gaelic). It means...
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Away from Home for the Holidays
Back to school. After over a month of silence, my brain is slowly coming out of hibernation. Since this month included several big changes (with schools, vacations, etc.) I have decided to break it...
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Surreal
Is how I feel right now with heavy eyelids and my fifth cup of Kaffe in my hand starring out the window on a snowy winter Denmark. I still can’t believe I’m here, across the Atlantic, on a different...
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Walkin’ Shoes
I feel like I was a smart person when I planned for this trip. Past Hannah was wise. She knew I’d be walking absolutely EVERYWHERE and she knew I’d get lost. A lot. I have a great sense of...
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One of the worst preconceptions of Germans is that they are all Neo-Nazis. This is the legacy handed down from Hitler, from the Third Reich, that Germans today must contend with, both at home and...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
I hate to start this entry with the title of a book series by « Lemony Snicket » but regrettably there is no other description that so aptly fits recent circumstances in France. What with the ongoing...
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Trips!
I never thought about travelling outside of the UK while I was here. I realize now that this is something a lot of people planned on doing when they were thinking of places to study abroad. After...
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Gin Kaew Yhoung?
“Whats the food like there?” “Well its really spicy. A lot of rice, a lot of noodles, and a lot of stir fried things.” A different relatives enters the room. “Max, how’s the food there? Whats it...
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A Weekend in London
For my first trip, I’m glad I picked London. I was there years ago, when I was a sophomore in high school, and I remembered loving it. I’m happy to report that I still love it! I went with two of my...
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Kat: 1, Liechtenstein: Owned. In which our protagonist spends many hours on...
Today is Sunday, and I have done nothing except bake, cook, Skype with Paul, and lounge around on my bed, catching up on the Daily Show and Colbert Report episodes from last week. This is in stark...
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