http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607 Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:52:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i am undressing the walls and learning the difference between sheetrock and humans. living as a tumbleweed, the souvenirs collected in my cartwheels have turned this room into a scrapbook of myself. with two days left in this country, i have learned: 1. there is no better way to ... http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=994 in scrolling through the 500+ photographs of my trip to the south island of new zealand, it is hard to discriminate which pictures to post and what memories to make public, which are for the world and which ones i want to tell you over some sort of beverage. some ... http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=993 nica & i, two little ladies from new york who ironically met at a pizza party new zealand, are travel addicts. with our money and time in new zealand dwindling down, we are itching to see as much, for as little as possible, before we cross date lines and time-travel ... http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=991 Two weeks ago I had to wave goodbye to Prague.  I took an uneventful flight to Dusseldorf and on to New York.  I was sad to leave that city because I learned to love it over the past 4 months.  It was quite a shock stepping into my house because ... http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=1045 for the homesick who some days count the sunsets instead of paint them http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=988 it's june in new zealand, that is to say, this whole experience goes by very fast. http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=987 How odd it has been to be home.  It is not that it was hard to fit back in to this routine, but the fact that nothing here has changed.  This makes it feel as though the past 5 months were a dream of somesort, because they were so far ... http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=1119 Every student has to take a 2 week long 5 hour a day intensive Czech language course. It is a lot to absorb but 100% necessary. Your brain will be fried by the end of the day but it'll help you get by and you'll receive 3 credits. ... http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=986 i spent my rent money on an impromptu plane ticket to samoa. eleven of my travelling companions and i stayed in "fales," which are open huts with thatched roofs and blinds made out of coconut leaves. we slept under mosquito nets (note to anyone who travels to a south pacific island: ... http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=973 The school that I am a part of is named Charles University and it was set up by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV in 1348. Yes, 1348. It has history that predates our country by several hundred years. It is an urban campus consisting of dozens of ... http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog0607/?p=972