7/29/21 So I may have spoken too soon last time about feeling all better on the train. I spent the rest of that night shivering under my flannel and blanket. One of the first things we did once I arrived was to schedule a rapid Covid test at a drive-in site, which thankfully came back …
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Amtrak: Day 17
7/25/21 Wow! There’s so much I want to say about Seattle! Despite only being in the city for 48 hours, and without getting a chance to venture out into the nearby national parks, this was still one of my busiest and most fun stops on my trip. If I weren’t already moving to the Chicago …
Amtrak: Day 15
7/23/21 Time for the Portland update! I had a great time visiting my old high school friend Yasmin, who graduated this spring with a BFA in painting from PNCA and now lives in the city teaching art to elementary school students. She recently defended her thesis, an autobiographical documentation of key memories through a series …
Amtrak: Day 13
7/21/21 Hello from the train to Oregon! It’s been a week since I last wrote in here and I spent the entirety of it in the Bay Area revisiting old friends, eating my favorite foods, and wandering about my old stomping grounds. This is my fourth visit to Palo Alto since graduating high school, the …
Amtrak: Day 4
7/12/21 Colorado was a blast! Lots to catch up on. The rest of the train ride was nice, I had an empty seat next to me, so I was able to lay down flat across the seats, curled up, and get a few hours of sleep. I fell asleep as we entered Nebraska and woke …
Amtrak: Day 1
7/9/21 Per my aunt Jeanne’s request, I am renewing my travel-writing series, this time documenting a journey slightly closer to home. I found that writing down an account of my travels and my thoughts throughout was a great way to memorialize it both for myself and for others, and I am able to include so …
Istanbul
Hello once more! It sure has been a long time since I last posted on here. I never quite got around to finishing my blog post on Istanbul – winter term snuck up on me quicker than expected – but luckily, I thought ahead and made notes for my future self. At the time of …
Endings and Beginnings
It’s still feels a little unreal to be saying this, but my study abroad program is over! It’s been a while since I last updated this blog and I wish I could’ve talked with you all sooner, but the second term got a little hectic in terms of the workload. Writing our research papers …
Israel and Palestine
I uploaded my previous blog around 3am and I woke up at 5am to pack for my next trip. The upcoming Sunday was the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, and while it wasn’t originally scheduled as a day off, enough people in the program had assumed it would be and scheduled travel on that …
Malta
Hold on to your seats because this is going to be a long one. As I mentioned in my previous post, my friends and I took a week-long vacation in Malta, and it was everything I imagined and more. I’ll do my best to capture the magic of it, and with the help of …
Gregor in Jordan 