Tag: first day

Pip Pip Cheerio from Bristol!

It may be only 1:45 am in my body but my mind is buzzing awake watching the sunrise out of the window on the plane. There’s a scene from my favorite childhood movie, The Parent Trap, where Halle looks out of her window as her plane approaches London as the song “There She Goes” by ...

Traveling to Seoul and First Impressions

From waking up at 4:30 am EDT on Friday to catch a flight to Chicago, a fourteen-hour flight to Seoul, going through customs and immigration, navigating Seoul’s subway, and trying to find the dormitories on Hanyang’s campus at 7pm KST on Saturday, it was a long and tiring day. There are many ways to get ...

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THREE | Orientation Day at HWR (Berlin School of Economics and Law)

Monday, 27.6.2016 Early Morning “Wait, where are we going?” Silence. “Does anyone know where we’re going?” More silence. It’s already 9:30am and we have to be at school by 10:00am. Then, one of the fifteen students cheered, “I got it! We’re taking the U7 towards Rudow and getting off at Bayerische Platz.” Thank you, student whose ...

ONE | Finding Home Part 1

PREFACE | Note from the Author Tickets – check. Luggage – check. Passport – check. You may think that I’m ready for whatever trip lies ahead. To you, my friend, I’d say you’re partially right: I have my documents, my clothes, my gadgets, and my tangible things, but I’d stop there. No matter how much ...

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G’Day and Welcome to Sydney!

G’Day from Sydney! I am traveling with Sam, Mandy and Nick and we are all staying together here. We arrived after a very long 22 hour flight on Monday to a rainy and chilly Sydney, but we bounced off the plane ready to explore. Since we can’t move into our housing for the term until ...