Oh goodness... okay... so when I last wrote so many days ago, I was ready to TAKE ON THE WORLLLLD mwahaha! Well, sort of. Internally, I was really just ready to go to Baden and settle down and start life up again. But, every time that I took this trip into consideration, I would just kind of skip over the month of August in my mind. Think of what I had in store for August: 2 weeks of traveling solo - which I've been known to do... but it's exhausting; then, 2 weeks of going into a weak community, sleeping on a floor and trying to educate the Portugese about the rest of the world; this, then, followed by another week of solo travel. All of this, in addition to a final paper for Geneva and ... read more

Lesson of the month: Do not make assumptions about your own intelligence with regards to technology... just read the friggin' manual. I had all of these lovely photos of me and my new friends all around Geneva and pretending to be UN diplomats (no shocker here: I was one of the US delegates meaning I got to be an outspoken jerk for 3 hours... and be the center of attention... mwahaha), etc. etc. and instead of properly uploading them, I simply deleted them. This is not cool. However, I did manage to salvage a handful -- these in particular are near and dear to me because they are what put me into the actual traveling spirit. On Saturday, see, we had a complete day off so a few of us took to wandering "Old Town" Geneva. ... read more

Hey There, So, eventually these posts will slow down and I will not be overwhelming anymore inboxes every two days with meticulous updates... but there have been a lot of questions as to what it is, exactly, that I am doing here in Geneva. Basically, it's like this: My school has a short-term study-abroad-like program called a "Dialogue of Civilizations" wherein a class (aka 20 some-odd students) are accompanied by a professor with the intent to use that country (or some element of it) as the classroom. Therefore, my class is IAFU938 - Globalization and Social Science as well as POLU938 - which I believe to be International Conflict Negotiation or something along those lines. Essentially, we are using the United Nations as our classroom. So, a typical schedule, these days, looks like this: 7:30am - ... read more

So, I've arrived in Geneva! And it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! I am already having a wonderful time!! Further updates to come.... read more

Well, here it is - my very last update from the state of Massachusetts and potentially from the USA altogether. Today (Thursday, 6/19), I depart for Washington DC one last time in order to pay a visit to my brother and all of his friends. As I was telling my mom the other day, the planning for this weekend reminds me of one of my birthdays when I was a kid; I think it was my 10th. I had slept in or taken a nap or something that day and when I woke up, my brother was wearing a birthday hat and had decorated the entire living room, and to boot, he was, somehow, WAY more excited about my birthday than I was! It's moments like these that keep coming back to me in waves and ... read more