Archive for 2005
Holiday season
As I prepare for the joyful days ahead with Christmas and wonderful time with my family, I can’t help but think back to the year that has passed. Wow how time has flown. Once you are on your own, living in a house, paying your own bills, time really catches up to you. What a […]
A bittersweet ending
In continuing with my established practice of writing retrospective blogs, I offer my final post after I have been back in the U.S. for three days. My final days in Scotland were a physical and emotional roller-coaster ride. Near the end of my second to last week in Edinburgh my health started to deteriorate. I […]
December 8 Update
I will report that I am starting to feel comfortable… and that I believe this to be both good and bad. The good is obvious – who doesn’t want to be comfortable? I have some friends, I am (finally!) able to communicate with some people in Slovak (and/or German), I feel the teachers at school […]
Reasons to be thankful
The last few weeks have been absolutely crazy. I completed two more essays, finished my classes, and celebrated Thanksgiving with a traditional American feast. Now, with less than two weeks left in Scotland, I’m starting to feel the pressure of needing to accomplish a million things in a very short period of time. Of course, […]
gac weekend
Its weekends like this past one that make a person really miss their days at Gustavus. I have been helping with the Gustavus football team this year and needless to say, it has been an arduous journey. Not being able to be out there and help the team that has struggled mightily is frustrating. Coming […]
Trudging along
I continue to trudge along. The word “trudge” is specifically chosen, because it reflects the best how gracefully I seem to be going along. It sometimes seems that everything I have tried to do has been promptly greeted by a roadblock. Second and third tries are often equally unsuccessful. As a result, I have had […]
A taste of Ireland…and haggis
Amazingly enough, I managed to survive last week. I got both of my essays in on time, and I guess I’m about as happy with them as possible. It was definitely a challenge trying to change my writing style to meet the virtually undefined expectations for essays here. I have another essay due in two […]
Picts, travel, and tasty delicacies
As I have just returned from my mid-semester break and actually need to start writing essays, I decided to warm-up a bit beforehand by finally making another post. It’s so hard to believe that the semester is half over already. I honestly don’t know where the time has gone. But I’m enjoying every second of […]
post gac life #1
Although I have been out of school for a couple years, there isn’t a week that goes by where I don’t catch myself thinking back to the fun times had at GAC. While so many students anxiously anticipate the upcoming days of graduation, they fail to realize just how fond of memories they create of […]
Learning the Language
Since I got here to Vrbovce, it has been a constant struggle to simply find some footing, though I think I’ve finally found a bit of a ledge. Most people don’t speak English (though I am increasingly glad each day that I know some German, since that is a very common second language here… I […]