There Can Be Only One

“Oh my God, I haven’t been on Instagram in like, five days!”   These were the first words to grace my ears as I sat down on my flight from Berlin to LAX. I was surrounded...

Fail Better April 6-7 The pub was filled with the steady booming of old-school Schlager music—dwarfed in sound only by the clinking of Astra bottles and the consistent cheering of a good time. My six fellow...

April 19 – The Train  I was on a train, alone, in the middle of the night, thousands of miles from my family in the states and with four hours of sleep fighting against four...

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! For the times, they are a changin’. There was a time, not too long ago, when an empire of eyeliner, ripped skinny jeans and whiny vocals ruled...

  As of writing this, I am in my ninth week of the 15-week UCEAP Language and Culture Program. So while I feel like I have just settled in here, it has just occurred to...

May Day May 1 “Happy New Year!” shouted an alcohol-slurred voice among the multitude of faces. This was the greeting my friends and I met as we got off the U-Bahn and into the crowd that consumed...

A Weekend in Amsterdam May 9-15 One of the greatest things about Germany would have to be its location. With its position smack-dab in the middle of Europe, you are only some hours away from a...