I’ve left Oxford for just over three weeks now, and it still doesn’t quite feel real sometimes. When I’ve been asked about my study abroad experience by my friends and family at home, I found myself saying the same thing: it felt almost like a dream that I haven’t quite processed yet. In many ways, […]

The first thing I think about when I consider how my sit spot has changed over the course of my time here is how comfortable and pleasant it feels to sit here now. In the beginning, my fingers always felt stiff from the cold, the trees were bare, and the sky was always cloudy and […]

I’ve been travelling after the end of my program and had some trouble posting to the blog, but I’m back now and able to share some thoughts on art and nature from my time in Barcelona, Spain: Barcelona is a city bursting with color! In many ways, the tall buildings with ornate, curling balconies and […]

In the blink of an eye, spring has arrived in Oxford and seems here to stay! I’m entering the last couple weeks of my program, and to be honest, it feels like vacation already. I most definitely still have work to do, but I’ve been trying to make the most of my remaining time here […]

The weather in Oxford has been beautiful and sunny, and the urge to ignore my work in favor of enjoying the outdoors is stronger than ever! It seems like everyone else had the same idea, as my sit spot is lively with people enjoying a cup of tea at Vaults and Garden, a cafe located […]

This week, I found myself sitting in front of a different medieval stone church in Oxford—the church of St Giles, first built in 1120—and seated in front of graves. I am writing from a little cluster of benches in the church cemetery, a place that could not be more opposite from the hushed, grim, and […]

It rained pretty heavily here this morning, and though the rain has stopped now, there’s still a light sheen of water over the stone and grass at my sit spot. I’ve been appreciating the beauty of rainy days much more lately—the rain makes the cobblestones and spires glow, and at night the warm lamplight makes […]

  It’s a rare sunny day in Oxford today, and I’m taking full advantage to sit outside and journal, though it’s actually quite deceptively cold for the temperature being 45 Fahrenheit. It’s been the kind of day where all I do is park myself in the Radcliffe Camera to read and work on my essays […]