It was 2004 when I first visited Madrid. I was on a high school trip with the French/Spanish club and our adventure happened to land just weeks after the train…
From Suramérica to Suburbia
It is inevitable to experience “reverse culture shock” after spending a long period of time abroad. Culture shock is the experience of a new language, food, people, and trying to…
Notes on the Return
So it’s been a couple months. You’d think I would have already gotten over the inevitable feeling of reverse culture shock, and we’d be on with life, right? Well, apparently…
This is the last post I will write from Africa.
This is the last post I will write from Africa. On Saturday, I leave Côte d’Ivoire. I have a brief two day layover in Yaoundé, Cameroon (where I studied abroad…