If I were to summarize the past four months of my life, twenty flights, eighteen buses, ten trains, ten countries, and a multitude of cherished memories; I would do so in three words: immersion drives change. From this experience, I have come to a profound realization: “Stepping out of your life,” even for a brief […]

Kaixo from my last week in my Basque Country study abroad! (Note how I did not say my last week as I am already planning when I will come back) As my program comes to an end, we have become very reflexive, and I think the thought that has hit me the heaviest comes down […]

Egunon everyone! To be honest, coming from Venezuela where environmental initiatives were very primitive, I always associated environmental consciousness to the United States and felt that as a country they had it all figured out. Today, having lived in the country for five years I can say that while there are a plethora of initiatives […]

Kaixo everyone! Today I sit at my sit spot and the reality that the program is ending dawn on me, the mixed emotions are real, and no one could have prepared me for these feelings. On one hand, I am here taking a break from my final project which I want to finish desperately. On […]

Egunon once again from rainy Bilbao! Today I am once again required to sit by the windows in the university because it is once again wet and musty in my sit spot. However, I take this opportunity to think about how Bilbao looked before its transformation. Like I have alluded to in previous posts, Bilbao […]

Kaixo from Deusto!   I am back in Bilbao after being away for a couple of weeks and am picking back up with things. You might be wondering how I was able to take off for so long while our Study Abroad programs are short enough as is. The thing is, I was fortunate enough […]

Hello again from Bilbo! Contrary to what I was told as I prepped for my last post, we have had some very sunny days this week and very little rain. My group has begun this trend of grabbing lunch outside to enjoy the heat and I have really noticed the positive impact the extra hours […]

Let me set the scene: on one hand the people of the autonomous region of the Basque country are aggressively complaining about the bizarre cold weather the last couple of weeks—where it is between 0 and 5 degrees Celsius. However, on the other, in Boston— where I would usually be around this time— people are […]

    It has been a very hectic week since I first touched down in Europe and a couple of days since I arrived in Bilbao. From the minute I left my home base of Orlando, numerous stimulants have pulled on my neurons. I have never been as excited and tired at the same time […]