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March 8, 2020 - Luxembourgeois (OOTD #619)

March 8, 2020 – Luxembourgeois (OOTD #619)

It wasn’t until my second day in Luxembourg that I actually visited Luxembourg City. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGhkp5IB1yp/ Luxembourg is a somewhat confusing place — it’s the name of both a country and a city. The city, Luxembourg, is sometimes called Luxembourg City to distinguish it from the country, but more often, it’s just called Luxembourg. I suppose it’s something like New York City…

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March, 2020 - Castles and Countrysides (OOTD #618)

March, 2020 – Castles and Countrysides (OOTD #618)

My last weekend living in Paris, I didn’t even spend in Paris. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGkZKatBwzc/ My friend, Emma (the one whom I visited in Toledo), and I were supposed to spend the weekend together in Paris the weekend after I visited her, but, because of the rising concern over coronavirus after the outbreaks in Venice, she decided not to actually come. I was a little sad about it,…

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March 5, 2020 - Meilin's Day Off (OOTD #617)

March 5, 2020 – Meilin’s Day Off (OOTD #617)

You ever have your classes cancelled because of a massive strike taking place outside your school’s main classroom building? https://www.instagram.com/p/B_OV44bgPgc/ I hadn’t either, until this year. In truth, I don’t even know what the strike was about — as much as I could gather, it wasn’t actually connected to the transport strike that was going on when I first arrived in Paris. I think it…

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March 3, 2020 - Chez Moi (OOTD #616)

March 3, 2020 – Chez Moi (OOTD #616)

It sure felt good to be back in Paris after traveling Europe for a week. https://www.instagram.com/p/CG2WB4WBdxr/ It was definitely weird to have only gone to school for about a week (two, if you count the Welcome Programme as “school”) before going on vacation. In total, I’d been in Europe for well over a month at this point, but I’d actually only attended classes for a small fraction at that…

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Tuesday Musings - February 2020 Bullet Journal Spread

Tuesday Musings – February 2020 Bullet Journal Spread

I promise, I’m really making an effort to get caught up on these blog posts. It’s pretty difficult actually trying to wrack my brain to remember how I was thinking/feeling months ago. February 2020 was a vastly different world from December 2020. For context, in case you’re reading this later, in February 2020 the coronavirus was mostly just a far-off news story from China, and in December 2020,…

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February 22, 2020 - Those Red Tail Lights Heading for Spain (OOTD #615)

February 22, 2020 – Those Red Tail Lights Heading for Spain (OOTD #615)

Sciences Po winter break: day 8. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDcItsbsDmG/ My final destination on my whirlwind week-long backpacking tour of Europe was a country I’ve actually never been to before: Spain. It’s not that I haven’t been interested in visiting Spain. But each time I’ve visited Europe for a significant period of time (that is, the summer after my sophomore year and my junior…

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February 21, 2020 - Venetian Carnevale (OOTD #614)

February 21, 2020 – Venetian Carnevale (OOTD #614)

Sciences Po winter break: day 7 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-kg7HSlmnX/ On my final day with my Sciences Po travel crew, we woke up in an AirBnB apartment in Venice, Italy during Carnevale season. Processed with VSCO with c1 preset Of all the places I visited on our week-long whirlwind tour of Central Europe, Venice was easily the most visually unique. I mean, it’s arguably one of the most…

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February 20, 2020 - City of Dragons (OOTD #613)

February 20, 2020 – City of Dragons (OOTD #613)

Sciences Po winter break: day 6 I technically made my way through probably four separate countries on February 20. The first was Hungary, where I caught a night bus late in the evening. I slept for most of the journey, so I’m not actually sure how many hours of the wee morning that I was in Hungary, but I’ll wager it was a few. The second was Croatia, where we had to wait out a several hour…

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February 19, 2020 - My Heart's (Still) in Budapest (OOTD #612)

February 19, 2020 – My Heart’s (Still) in Budapest (OOTD #612)

Sciences Po winter break: day 5 https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6pZuMg0jL/ If it were entirely up to me, I might not have gone back to Budapest. I might’ve stayed another day in Vienna or tried to visit another Central European city that I’ve never seen, like Bratislava. It was really my friends’ interest that brought me back to Budapest rather than…

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February 18, 2020 - Vienna Waits for You (OOTD #611)

February 18, 2020 – Vienna Waits for You (OOTD #611)

Sciences Po winter break: day 3 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMdgwcAXmn/ Actually, on the contrary, I’d argue that Vienna doesn’t really wait for you, considering they close up most of everything when the sun goes down. Vienna waits for you at least until dusk, and then you’re on your own. On day two in Vienna, we did allow ourselves a late start to the day. One of my friends wasn’t feeling…

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February 17, 2020 - "I'll Be Back," Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1984 (OOTD # 610)

February 17, 2020 – “I’ll Be Back,” Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1984 (OOTD # 610)

Sciences Po winter break: day 3 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDozvWHgjHa/ I sure would like to go back. I spent about 1.5 days in Vienna, Austria, one of the longest stays in a single city during our trip, but I still didn’t get to see as much as I would’ve liked. For one, I never got around to the Schönbrunn Palace, which I’d really been hoping to see. We also never saw Salzburg, another city…

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February 16, 2020 - Czech It Off the List (OOTD #609)

February 16, 2020 – Czech It Off the List (OOTD #609)

Sciences Po winter break: day 2 https://www.instagram.com/p/CC93FRqgC98/ I think Prague was honestly my favorite city that I visited during my week-long backpacking trip through Europe. And that’s saying something, seeing as there was some pretty stiff competition from cities like Venice and Budapest, which were also captivating in their own right. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDDAzRzg7VQ/ I…

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February 15, 2020 - Frankfurt with a 'U' (OOTD #608)

February 15, 2020 – Frankfurt with a ‘U’ (OOTD #608)

Sciences Po winter break: day 1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CCM0rruAnVP/ Here it is: the first day on my whirlwind week-long backpacking trip though Europe. I know “backpacking through Europe” normally refers to longer trips — weeks or even months — and it’s probably better that way. I would have loved to have months to travel, to actually get to spend more than 24 hours in each city I…

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February 8, 2020 - La Campagne de Champagne (OOTD #607)

February 8, 2020 – La Campagne de Champagne (OOTD #607)

For my non-French speaking readers, the title here means “champagne country” — of course, “champagne” is a pretty obvious direct translation, but “campagne,” which means “country” or “countryside,” is less so. They rhyme, which is fun — making them a good combination for a fun blog title.

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Once again, I have a blog that features a short day trip…

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February 3, 2020 - A Hill to Die On (OOTD #606)

February 3, 2020 – A Hill to Die On (OOTD #606)

Montmartre rivals the Great Wall of China I think in the amount of steps I had to climb at a tourist spot.

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Well, actually, come to think of it, there was a temple in Nepalthat was supposedly 1000 steps to the top that I tried to climb, but it ended up getting dark before we made it up more than a few hundred. To be honest, I’m not sure I could’ve…

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February 1, 2020 - Never Bored in Bordeaux (OOTD #605)

February 1, 2020 – Never Bored in Bordeaux (OOTD #605)

I took my first short day trip outside of Paris the weekend after classes began.

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wait, this isn’t a bourbon distillery

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Sunday Musings - January 2020 Bullet Journal Spread

Sunday Musings – January 2020 Bullet Journal Spread

Ah yes, of course, the most relevant time to be writing about my January bullet journal spread — mid-August.

I’ve vacillated a bit on what to do with my bullet journal posts on this blog — if I should post them more in line with the actual time of year they correspond to, or if I should post them at the same time as my OOTD posts from that month go up — ultimately, I’ve opted for the latter.…

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