May has gone by so quickly! It started with a few days of quarantine, but since my quarantine ended, I've been very busy. At the...

Hello again! I'm a bit late on my April update but April was such a fun, busy month! April began with a quick cruise to Stockholm with my...

As we're nearing the end of March, I have officially made it past the halfway point of my semester abroad. The time has gone by so...

Hello! It has been a month since my last post, so I have now been in Finland for about a month and a half. It is really starting to feel...

First of all, to those of you who subscribed to my previous blog and are randomly getting an email about this post, my apologies. If you...

I am not quite sure where the idea for taking a gap year came from. I don't remember a specific moment when I decided that college wasn't...

The longest I had ever been away from home before now was at summer camp for two weeks. The longest I had ever been away from my family...

I’ve come to realize that one of the many perks of living in Europe is how easily one can travel between countries. And by easily, I mean...

One month. One month! When I think of how to describe that last month, I struggle to find the right words. Exciting, terrifying, weird...

The last two weeks have been some of the hardest and most rewarding weeks of my life. The days have been some of the slowest, and the...

The decision: One night, as I was sitting in the living room with my parents, I was unusually restless. I sometimes get in these moods...

This past week, I had the opportunity to travel to the U.S. Virgin Islands with a team from the University of Pittsburgh to do hurricane...

https://youtu.be/DNBbDPXLseY As part of my graduation gift, my parents gave me tickets to see the show Hamilton in Chicago. Knowing every...

I had the opportunity to go to Aruba with one of my best friends, Kenzie, and her family. We got to go snorkeling, hang out by the pool,...

The first mission trip that I was able to go on after graduating was a trip to La Ceiba, Honduras. First of all, if you supported me...

By no means am I a talented writer. Ask any of my high school English teachers, and they will probably let you know that my writing is...