This week was much less eventful than the first three, but I did have an experience that makes it perfectly okay. A few other exchange students and I went hiking at Mount Ngungun, part of the Glasshouse Mountains in Queensland. I mistakenly did absolutely no research on the trail we had chosen, so when we […]

Classes started this Monday– I’m only taking three, and one is chemistry, so there’s not much excitement there. But I have been surprised by a lot of different things in the past few days. I’ve met a lot of people who are already beginning to have an impression on me, not because they’re these incredible […]

Week 1 is complete! I have spent the week with my parents in Brisbane, and they left this morning to fly home. It took them leaving for everything to hit, and it hit all at once. We did have a wonderful week, taking the ferry to different locations throughout the city and exploring more natural […]

China was a blast and I am looking forward to revisiting. To my surprise, I really got into the rhythm of the different cities I visited and feel as though I could go back comfortably. My visit to the Xi’an Jiaotong University of Architecture and Technology was very welcoming and I am grateful for Professor […]

Next Stop: Zaragoza, Spain Just three hours before departure and for the first time ever I find myself beyond the second page of google images. Google does a good job of providing feedback where one seldom has to go further than the second page of results to find what they are looking for, but that […]