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Hi blog! Last and final post. I was procrastinating writing this last part, but now is finally the time. Our final full day in Poland started with us on the overnight Flixbus back to Krakow from Gdansk. We made it back to Krakow in time to take a quick nap, get ready, and head outContinue reading “Poland 2023 Part 4”

Hey blog, it’s been a minute but it is finally time to finish our trip. Day 3 was a very busy day. We woke up at 1 am to head to the bus and train station to catch an overnight Flixbus to Gdansk. We slept as best as we could (which wasn’t well) throughout theContinue reading “Poland 2023 Part 3”

Trigger warnings: Jewish Holocaust, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, death and murder Saturday morning came quickly. We were up at 7 in an *attempt* to catch our bus to Oświęcim (Auschwitz in German) for our 10:30 Auschwitz II-Birkenau Memorial and Museum visit. We missed the bus because I wasn’t sure what the bus looked like. We had noContinue reading “Poland 2023 Part 2”

Hi blog! Nick and I are back from our adventure in Poland! I expect our 2023 Poland trip to be a multi part blog since we fit so much into 4 days and have had to come back to real life right away. Wednesday evening, after work, we headed straight for the Chicago airport. IContinue reading “Poland 2023 Part 1!”

Hi All! Since the majority of our trip is figured out and booked I can share our itinerary and bucketlist! Something important to note is that the theme of this trip is “We’re doing XYZ because it’s something I learned about during my semester abroad but never got to visit because COVID sent me homeContinue reading “Poland 2023 Itinerary”

Hello all…welcome back to my blog! Never thought I would get to type those words again but I’m headed back to Poland in exactly 30 days and I can hardly contain my excitement. Let’s catch up! Since I wrote (what I thought was) my last post in May of 2020 so much has happened. IContinue reading “Welcome Back!!”

I should be on my flight home today. Instead, I’ve been home for 8 weeks. Who could have predicted that? I feel like since I came home on such WEIRD and absolutely bizarre terms, I didn’t experience culture shock the way students abroad usually do. I had trouble adjusting to being under someone else’s rulesContinue reading “Do Widzenia UEK”

I feel like the coronavirus is the only thing we talk about now. I don’t want to write another blog based on it but that’s what is ruling my life right now so it be like that. I survived 14 days in true quarantine! It felt like I was reliving the same day for twoContinue reading “14 Days Later…”

“One problem at a time.” Maethe motto for the entire trip home Grab your popcorn. I hope you are ready for a story of a lifetime. The world was aware that coronavirus was spreading rapidly through China. A few USAC students had to cancel trips to Italy, so the 13 of us were aware ofContinue reading “Coronavirus”

If in doubt, travel. What are you supposed to do with your last 4-day weekend? Travel somewhere new obviously. I asked my Jewish studies professor, “If there is one city I absolutely HAVE to visit while I’m in Europe, which city is it?” She said Prague so on March 5th, Mae and I took anContinue reading “Prague, Czech Republic”