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There is a musical essence to Irish culture that swept me up almost immediately when I arrived in Cork seven weeks ago. People in the street, at school, in shops, pubs, the park, and wherever I find myself, all seem to be connected by a never-ending positivity expressed through song. Whether the presence of songs […]

by Casey Bermingham Blog 1: School’s in Session It’s hard to express how much insight and knowledge I’ve gained from just one month of studying abroad. Between my classes and the learning experience that day-to-day life is when you’re abroad, I know so much more than I did when I started this journey.  The first and […]

By: Hannah Rezendes  Dance has been a constant my whole life. I literally learned to walk on my tippy toes and my parents had to teach me how to walk flat-footed. At age three I started ballet, and I haven’t stopped since. Coming to Florence was the first time in my life where I wasn’t […]

Part of the reason I chose to study abroad in Prague is because I did not know much about the city at all. When I arrived in Prague, I did not have classes for the first week, so I took the time to explore the city and meet new people. I went to many famous […]

By Mackenzie Kirby Introduction Hi! My name is Zie and I’ll be a junior this Fall Semester of 2023. I am pursuing a Creative Writing Major with a Film Minor. This past Spring Semester I studied in Moss, Norway, becoming one of the few students from Salve Regina to go abroad in the Scandinavian region. […]

Introduction Perolata. A word that, if searched, does not exist. Instead, the results that emerge are for the word “perorata,” which is defined by the Real Academia de Lengua as a “discurso o razonamiento, generalmente pesado y sin substancia” (discourse or reasoning, generally weighted and without substance) (n. pág.). But that is not what a […]

Ethan David5 June 2023Budapest, HungaryBlog #2 Saying goodbye to Budapest, Hungary was not easy. The friends I made, the places ive been, and the city itself made it difficult to board the plane home. However, I am happy to see my friends and family again. Once I got home, I laid in bed and reflected […]

Before leaving Barcelona, I had one last day to soak up the city’s beauty. I spent it sitting near the Sagrada Familia, watching people taking pictures and admiring the architecture. It brought back all the memories from my time abroad—meeting people, exploring new places, and staying up late to experience it all. All I could […]

Four months later… I can now say that I have two homes across the world from one another, friends scattered across the United States, and countless memories. I have experienced greater things that I could have imagined, but the most life-changing of all is the self that I am left with at the end. Over […]

Creating a “home away from home” isn’t an easy thing to do, but it surely makes adjustment periods easier. I love to travel and try new things, which often includes going to new places, therefore creating a few different “home away from homes”. Going into the study abroad experience, I had the hope that Seville […]