Well, here we are. It's January 16th, and I am officially at the halfway point of my (academic) year abroad. Thus far, the count stands as follows:
Months in Europe: 4
Countries visited: 5
Wonderful Italian roommates: 3
Spanish learned: un montón
French learned: negatif
Arabic forgotten: it hurts me to think about it
Blog posts: 0
Now, as we begin a new calendar year, I am aiming to pump up that final statistic. I'll begin simply by saying that, as always, I love Spain. The semester I spent there was incredible, and I'm extremely grateful for the opportunities I have had. I won't even try to summarize it all here, but for those of you interested in seeing pictures of Alicante and my travels, you can find them here.
For Part 2, I will be traveling to Geneva, Switzerland, where I'll be in a program focusing on (take a deep breath) International Studies, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Social Justice. Hopefully, I'll also be doing research on Muslim immigration in the UK. The one catch is that I'll be living with a French family and taking a French class. I fear that whatever I may have learned in my one year of French has been beaten out of my head by Spanish, so we'll see how this goes.
One final note: I know that this is just the latest in a glut of recent blog creations, but I've been planning this for over a semester. I'm not being trendy. I'm just an extremely gifted procrastinator.
Extra final note: I've included a Spanish page and French page that I will update like a blog (these pages don't really allow new posts). For those of you who can't read them, I apologize. I just need to practice. For those of you who can, I apologize. I do not claim to be fluent in either, particularly French.
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