Category: Belgium
Unpacking the Notes App: Reflections on my pre-departure to-do list
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. When I submitted my application to study abroad in Brussels, I wasn’t just signing up for a semester of waffles and weekend trips. I was searching for answers. It sounds dramatic, I know. Nietzsche was ...
Experiences Are Multiplicative: How Brussels Became Part of My Story
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. Last Fall, I took on the escapade of a lifetime: studying abroad at Sciences Po in Paris. Paris was everything I had dreamed it to be in my first-grade French class. I found a home ...
Bye Bye, Brussels!
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. For those of you who have been following my time in Brussels from the beginning, you’ll know what a rollercoaster of a trip I’ve had. Through the high and low moments, this has been one ...
Saying Goodbye to an Internship
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. My stint with European Network of Cultural Centres was not my first time at an internship and, thus, not my first time leaving one. Though it may sound like a simple task to depart from ...
The Joys of Belgian Bureaucracy: De-Registration
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. Early on in my trip, I clued you into the greatest evil you will face in Belgium: the registration process. The multiple trips, the random paperwork, the endless lines! All for a card that they ...
My French, In Review
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. I made it a goal to improve my French while I was abroad. Despite some hesitation in the beginning, I think I really achieved this. I wanted to reflect on my experience and share what ...
How I Got Inspired to Travel
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. The decision to come on study abroad was not an easy one. My sophomore year, I was the poorest I’d ever been in college and when my French teacher told us about the study abroad ...
Brussels, Pre-Departure: The Packing
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. I scoured the internet high and low for every study abroad packing tip I could find before I left for Brussels then made a Frankenstein personal list with all the tips. If you’re too lazy ...
Brussels, Pre-Departure: The Visa
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. The process of getting to Brussels was surprisingly hellish and knowing that I would be blogging the whole time, I thought over the summer that I would dedicate my first Study Abroad Blog posts to ...
Paris, Je T’aime!
Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m a French immersion student. I’ve been learning the language since I was four years old and have grown up learning about France, especially Paris, without ever having seen ...
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