Study Abroad

Got to measure and weigh baby sea turtles the other week at the marine park! I’ve never held something so precious

words cannot even explain my experience in cuba, so here are some pics to show what was by far the best week of my entire life  

cleaning the algae off of shanada the sea turtle (she is missing a fin) shanada eating (you can see on the left she lost her fin) the shark tank that i clean (you can see one of the shark’s fins towards the top of the picture) ok so now here is an explanation of the caption […]

pictured above is one of the dinners i came home to one night. the thing literally still had a full set of teeth and eyes, like eyelids and everything. my first instinct was to cry since the thing was literally frowning, but since my home stay mom seemed so excited for me to try it, i […]

Sorry guys that i am going out of order, but i figured my story from last night when my parents and grandparents who are visiting took my host family out to dinner (9/17/12) would go great with my last roof catastrophe post. ^the note my parents and grandparents left me on my school’s front door […]

What is pictured below may simply seem like the view from my balcony, but of course, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for me. Let me explain my first extreme failure of my study abroad journey in Puntarenas, Costa Rica…. So there is a guy named Joey from California who is fluent in English and […]

My study abroad program for Belgium is ISA and because I am in their program they provide day or multiday excursions to see more of the Belgian culture. Last weekend, we journeyed to the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, Flanders, to visit Breendonk and Antwerp. Our first stop was to Breendonk, Belgium’s only concentration camp. […]

Today we left San Jose around nineish to head to Cartago, a town in the province of Heredia, near San Joaquin.  In Cartago we stopped at the Lankeester Botanical Garden and it was absolutely beautiful.  We were warned, however, that this was only a small portion of the natural experience Costa RIca has to offer.  […]

I arrived in Brussels two days ago and so far have learned a lot about the Belgian experience. Brussels is a very quaint area but is sometimes confusing to understand. There are three official languages so it is difficult to know which language to speak when out on the town. Brussels is a bilingual city […]

So my abroad experience has officially begun.  It’s about two thirty here now, we were up at eight (against my own will) to get a jump start on the day, touring various places around San Jose (al capital).  It’s been such an adventure already, things are different here yet the same.  The locals (ticos) have […]