After the emotional rollercoaster of last week, I think it would be nice to start off with some photos for your viewing pleasure.

Week 13 didn’t have to go so hard. It was one of the longest and most exhausting weeks of this entire trip. Without being overly dramatic, by Friday I had the thought that if the trip ended the next day and we all had to go home…I wouldn’t be that…

Fun things first for this blog post — on Sunday we went on a wine tour, organized by yours truly. Right outside of Cape Town is the town of Stellenbosch, one of South Africa’s most famous wine areas. It is steeped in the legacy of apartheid, like most things in…

I have never consistently woken up at 7:30am and felt so happy before this past week in Cape Town. When we landed on Sunday morning there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky and Table Mountain was lit up and ready for us. We were warned that it would be…

I am a bit behind on writing my blogs, and there’s no way I can try to remember what happened and do my time justice. So instead I’ve decided to just include a bunch of photos and a few words. The photos are in no particular order :) La…

You’re probably wondering what I’ve been doing in Spain over the past few weeks. Yea me too. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Waking up in…

I forgot to write about my last week in Quito and it feels like two months have passed since then. At the start of the week we split everyone up into two groups of 8 to be able to visit the Banco de Alimentos Quito (BAQ) and see how the…

I’ve never had a valentine for Valentine’s day before this year, and I was a little sad that I wouldn’t be able to celebrate the day with my boyfriend. I woke up on Monday morning and had a slow breakfast and then went with one of my friends to get…

The beginning of this week was very relaxed. We didn’t have class until the afternoon on Monday, so I was able to wake up and have an early breakfast and work on some class readings. We had a representative from Republica del Cacao speak to us about their chocolate production…