As I prepared for my trip to London, I was most frequently asked, “Are you excited?” To which I usually responded, “I will be.” I will be, once I get...
I’m always impressed by how clean Singapore is. It’s not clean because everything is brand new, but because of the culture around how people treat messiness. All the streets are...
My “office” has a very noisy environment. Everywhere around me, I hear the deafening noises of metal being hammered, soldered together, punched, polished, and cut. Even with the earplugs I...
If I wasn’t excited already then when I received the email confirming my internship abroad, I definitely was when I arrived in the City of Lions. After a whole day...
When applying for this program, I immediately knew that London is the city where I wanted to spend the summer interning. I had never been to Europe prior to this...
Arriving in a new city, especially one as big and busy as London, can be overwhelming. I come from a moderate sized suburb, where the greatest decision one has to...
Anybody's first experience in the workplace can be very scary. For one, you are entering a foreign environment, one that is asking you to put all your prior education to...
London is like any other place to live, if by any other you mean a capital city with millions of people bustling around with accents foreign to your own. The...
When I accepted this internship in Spain, I didn’t know what to expect. This would be my first job in my field of study and going abroad. Having just graduated...
Every day for a month a suitcase had sat in the middle of my room accumulating all the things I would need for my two month internship in London. By...
We have done many things as a group that have been amazing! The first weekend we were in Madrid, we had a bus tour of the city. We got a glimpse...
Well I am officially “adulting” as I like to say. I wake up by 8:00 am to get some exercise in before breakfast and an hour and a half later...
It feels like just yesterday I was calling my mom from my apartment at the University of Pittsburgh to let her know I would be going to Spain in five...
It feels like just yesterday I was calling my mom from my apartment at the University of Pittsburgh to let her know I would be going to Spain in five months. Now, I am sitting in Madrid writing about the last three days spent in this wonderful new city. So, to take advantage of this downtime, I suppose it is time I allow myself to do some reminiscing over the past 72 jet-lagged filled hours.
There are many things that I have found appealing about my first days in Madrid; the transportation system, the social aspect, and the culture of Spain. My adventure began when I...
Before arriving in Spain I had heard a little bit about the culture from friends and family. For examples, the “siesta”, bull fighting, casual dress and cuisine differences. Even though...
Before arriving in Spain I had heard a little bit about the culture from friends and family. For examples, the “siesta”, bull fighting, casual dress and cuisine differences. Even though I heard about these differences nothing compares to actually being in Spain to experience them.
“Inside a building on Paseo de la Castellana, you will find cheery people who are eager to get into their offices and start their day. With over 10 offices in...
“Inside a building on Paseo de la Castellana, you will find cheery people who are eager to get into their offices and start their day. With over 10 offices in a communal building, you can find my company. It is an office with 7 hardworking individuals who want nothing but success for the travel and event agency. It is a fun, cool environment where lots of laughs are shared and I have the opportunity to work there for 2 whole months.
Just to give some background information, the company assists people in planning bachelor, bachelorette and college trips across Europe. The focus on their planning in countries of Spain and Portugal.
Leaving your hometown to go live in a whole new city can be quite scary. I left my hometown in Canada to fly directly to Madrid. I was travelling alone...
