Finals season is in full swing so shenanigans have significantly decreased. I, fortunately, don’t have my final until 27 June so I was able to afford a few moments to enjoy myself this week....
Tag: France
Week 19: A quick hop across the pond
In this week’s episode: an average (yet warm) few days in Geneva, and a five-day adventure back to sweet home Chicago.
Weeks 16 + 17: Various updates
This was my first free weekend in a long time and it’s been absolutely lovely. Almost every weekend of this study abroad program I have traveled somewhere—even if only a day-trip—and it has been totally exhausting.
Week 15: I finally go on a hike!
It has been seven days since we’ve returned from spring break and tensions between the physics students are at an all-time high. With 40 internship students moving out this weekend as their study abroad ends, unwanted bits and bobs are being redistributed and left for scavenging. A repository has been set up in one of our study rooms where the departing students can leave various undesired articles such as toiletries, towels, non-perishable food, and clothing. Once in the study room, it’s fair game for those of us who are here for another two months....
Snowshoe trek // 18.03.2017
Saturday was our long-awaited snowshoe trek. After a week of Geneva’s sunshine and temperatures in the 60s, we all wondered how much snow would actually be involved in this day-trip, but we were excited to find out.
Week 8: A bunch of college juniors try skiing for the first time
As I wrap up my eighth week in Geneva, I have the strange simultaneous feelings that time is flying by and that I've been here for an eternity. I don't know whether to feel excited or disappointed that we're only a third of the way through our program... But enough cliché—in today’s episode, we scratch a major goal off our collective bucket lists and Casey turns 21!
P A R I S
Paris has officially ruined Europe for me. It took every romantic notion I had dreamt up and confirmed it with absolute, relentless perfection. It’s times like these when I curse my poetic ineptitude; I wish I could accurately express how deeply in love I have fallen with Paris in the words it deserves. But alas, we’ll have to settle for this choppy love letter.
Week 3 (but more like 2.5)
In this week’s brief post, we have only two days of real class, we find a place to patinage sur glace, and I make a brief aside to explore Switzerland’s paprika fascination. Oh, and Dan and I went to Paris! But you’ll have to wait a couple days to hear that story….
Week 2: In which I discover peanut butter cheetos and visit a chocolate factory
Today, on “Maddie’s Adventures in Switzerland”: a tram accident, lots of French food, and a day trip to a Swiss town whose mountains are straight from a wanderlust Pinterest board.
mad world 