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Travel advice for the worldly scholar; discover the best places to study abroad, the best art and history museums, and beyond.
The School Trip
It was 2008, before I transferred to another elementary school the following year. My third grade class was selected to go to Manhattan for a field trip to the history museum. I was excited to go and already paid for it. It was my second time going there on a school trip. I would eventually go there a few times later along with a bowling alley in Queens and a couple of pizza joints. But I was always worried about the seating arrangement on the bus because I felt like the person sitting next to me would not like me. On the day of the trip, almost all of my classmates were next to each other. The class was an odd number and I was about to sit by myself. Then Ms. Harris asked me to sit next to her during the ride.
By Forest Green4 years ago in Education
Learning Spanish Takes Patience, Determination & Some Pura Vida. .
Sitting here. . thinking about how much fun it is to share with all of you the many exciting adventures experienced in Costa Rica by so many people. Books have been written. . movies have been made. . lives have been changed by this thing we proudly call, "The Pura Vida Lifestyle"! What a wonderful lifestyle it is!
By William "Skip" Licht4 years ago in Education
Stop Monkeying Around!
Have you ever wondered why the heck we started studying apes in the first place? Me too. I suppose it's because we have similar backgrounds. But here's the thing; our ape friends don't really have the same ideas of gender the way we do. Still don't think it's a social construct? Read on.
By Rachel Lynn4 years ago in Education
Review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
“I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me” Normal People was beautiful and heartbreaking. Sally Rooney has an incredible way with words that makes you feel like you’re having a conversation with the characters. She writes in a raw, passionate way about the awkward moments in life that we all experience but are too scared and embarrassed to talk about.
By Beca Damico4 years ago in Education
The Day I Learned Fluent Spanish
I moved to Barcelona in 2006, after an entire year of studying Spanish. I had taken my studies very seriously. For the last couple of months, I’d been listening to music, watching movies in Spanish with subtitles, reading magazines and books in my target language. I was also chatting with my to-be Spanish boyfriend on MSN Messenger (like an old-school Whatsapp but on your computer, for all you youngsters out there), ever since I’d met him on vacation.
By Taru Anniina Liikanen4 years ago in Education
The Black Castle
As a large city, Bradford in West Yorkshire was one of the leading contenders of the woollen trade and later industrial revolution, a mix of Georgian, Victorian and modern architecture fills every street of the metropolis in the heart of Yorkshire.
By Phill Ross4 years ago in Education
