Witnessing the Election from Abroad

I normally do not discuss politics to great ends and can’t recall ever writing about politics beyond typical schoolwork.  However, since I am here in Europe and finding that most people I meet here consider this election to be one of the most important elections in American history, I feel tempted to write down a little [...]

Mein Wochenende in Wien mit John

Before John came over on Friday, some of the other students in our apartment building hosted an early, Wednesday night Halloween party after most of us had finished all our finals.  The party was a complete success, and very luckily was never busted by the police.  I say this, because Vienna has a 10 o’clock [...]

Day Two (Well, first day really, but we’ll call it day 2):

We started off our stay in Prague by visiting the square of the most important church in Prague; the St. Vitus Cathedral.  Unfortunately we did not get to go inside because there was a mass at this time (some people ventured back later but I chose to see other things).  We then visited the Old [...]