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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Ascents, Aqueducts, and AS Roma
Last weekend, I took a train trip to Sorrento with eleven other students from my program. We arrived in the city on Friday night around midnight, after two exhausting train rides, and went to bed soon after locating our hostel. … Continue reading
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And the Road Keeps Moving Along
And we’re into week two of my stay in France. (What?) This last week and a half has been a blur of touring the collèges (middle schools) where I’ll be acting as an English teaching assistant, meeting the twenty or … Continue reading
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Day Trips and the Theatre
A week and a half ago, I purchased a bike and last Saturday I took a biking adventure with a young woman in my program named Kiersten. We biked to a very small peninsula just outside Dublin, called Howth. The … Continue reading
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A Hot, Bureaucratic Mess and the Best Students in the World
The above picture is of the Brandenburger Tor taken last Saturday. I finally ventured out to the middle of Berlin and saw the Brandenburger Tor, Reichstag, Spree (the river that runs through Berlin) and the Berliner Dom last week. The … Continue reading
Posted in Jill Nguyen '10, Fulbright to Germany
Tagged German banks, German Bureaucracy, German School System, School, the Common Cold
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200 Years of Indepence in Chile
This past weekend marked the 200th anniversary of independence in Chile! Since I arrived in late July, I’ve noticed the preparation for this grand celebration of “El Bicentenario” or “Fiestas Patrias.” To give you an image of how important it … Continue reading
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I survived the typhoon （and the hospital）
It all started on my birthday. I had a terrific birthday dim-sum lunch that my co-teachers Winnie and Sunny took me out to and I thought I just ate too much, which I did. After lunch, we all headed over … Continue reading
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Bells and Sirens
After months of paperwork, preparation, and packing, I’ve finally arrived in France (!), where I will be a language teaching assistant for the next seven months. The long-anticipated day of departure passed with only a few hiccups. It was a … Continue reading
Ten Days of Ireland
I arrived in Dublin on September 1st, bursting with excitement at the adventures that lay before me. At JFK airport, I had been met with my first taste of the Irish accents that now surround me, and in the week … Continue reading
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Burials and Birthdays
I had the great fortune this past Tuesday to visit Etruscan burial sites with the rest of the students from my program. At our first site, we admired the intricate paintings lining the walls of quite a number of Etruscan … Continue reading
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The Good, the Bad and the Frustrating: Orientation-Style
The above picture is of the “hostel” the PAD (Pädagogischer Austauschdienst, a department part of the German federal government that has promoted teaching assistantships for over 100 years starting with teacher assistants from the UK in Germany) chose to host … Continue reading
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Tagged Altenberg, Bayern-Haters, Cows, Monastery, orientation
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