In February I visited Strasbourg, a city at the eastern border where France meets Germany, with my mom and her boyfriend, Tom. Strasbourg is in the Alsace region where the mix of French and German culture is just perfect. Food from both cultures… signs in both languages… and I could see mountains. German mountains. Ah. […]
Friday, September 20, 2013
Merde what a day. The Journée du Patrimoine happens once a year. It’s a weekend of mayhem during which dozens of private exhibits and historical sites open to the public. We arrived at 8:45am on Saturday to tour Le Palais de L’Élysée– Paris’s version of the White House. It was before opening time and the line […]
So I flew with Icelandair because I knew the name and I wanted to fly with an airline, not a travel website like Expedia or Orbitz or countless others. I wanted to have one company responsible for my baggage and my complaints… not 3 different airlines and a travel company. So far, I do not […]
Sooo… I have a lot to do this week. I have my academic advisement meeting on Monday- theoretically I tell them my major and they tell me what school I’ll have to attend. Scary. I also have to send my money order and paperwork to Washington to start processing my student visa application (which I should’ve […]
So I’m thinking I want to get a nice camera before I leave for the year abroad. I’ve never had my own camera and always just used my cellphones for taking pictures… and I don’t mean fancy smartphones. My current and most high-tech phone is the Verizon Pantech Hotshot. It works fine but it is […]
