Today I’m really excited to have my first guest post on this blog! My friend James, who went with me on my recent trip to Finland had some thoughts about bilingualism, so I asked him to write about it for my blog and he wrote a lovely reflection on his experience in Finland. It’s weird…
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Like I said in the post about Tallinn and Stockholm, Emma is from Finland, so we decided to all go to Finland to hang out for about a week. In my last post, I talked about our 4th of July celebrations in Finland, and now I’m going to actually say what we did in Finland!…
A few months, in the middle of exams – perhaps during a trip to IKEA – James, Emma, and I cooked up the idea that we might come to Finland (since that’s where Emma’s from), and it actually happened! On Wednesday, James, Emma, and I got a flight at 10pm to Stockholm, where we had…
Last I wrote here, I was preparing for exams and now I’m DONE! I’ve been done for a while, actually. And a few things have happened since then. During exams I got my ears pierced, which is very exciting for me, but most people react by saying something along the lines of “wait, you didn’t…
I got back from a Spain on Tuesday and Friday I left for England. I feel like I haven’t had any time in Edinburgh in forever, but I had such a nice weekend in York! I went to York for a conference held by ULAB, the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain. I went with about…
Paulina and I left Murcia Sunday morning and headed back to Granada together. When I got to Granada, I bought a bus ticket to Málaga and I was on my way for the last leg of the trip. Read about my time in Granada and Murcia if you haven’t already! When I got to Málaga,…
Paulina and I left Granada (read about my time in Granada here) at about 7 and got into Murcia at about 10. We met up with the family we were visiting, whose daughter stayed with Paulina’s family last summer. It was a sort of exchange that I was lucky enough to be a part of….
On Easter Monday I set off bright and early for my 7am flight to Granada. Well, I don’t know if I can use the word “bright” since the sun hadn’t come up yet. Also, the flight wasn’t to Granada. I went through London and Madrid before getting to Malaga, where I caught a bus that…
For Paulina’s last day in Scotland, we went to not one, not two, but THREE castles in one day. It was quite intense, but so cool to see three very different castles. Stirling We got to Stirling right when they opened at 9:30, so it was quite an early start. We went straight from the…
My plan while my cousin was here was to see as much of Scotland as we could, focusing on things I hadn’t yet done. One of the easy day trips I planned was St. Andrews! The adorable streets in St. Andrews Our first stop was the house, where my grandparents used to live 60 years…