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English Breakfast: Raising the Bars
For those of you unaware of international alcohol policies, the legal drinking age in the UK is 18. That means that we youngsters going abroad to London have access to …
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English Breakfast: Let Your Freak Flag Fly
As my fellow Quad writer Joel explained in the first installment of “English Breakfast,” we will typically focus on our culinary adventures during our four-month stay here in London. However, for …
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English Breakfast: Breaking the Chains
Before I begin yet another enthralling installment of “English Breakfast,” I have glorious news to share. Due to my somewhat unscrupulous complaining about the knives supplied in our dorm kitchens, …
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English Breakfast: Escape to Camden
Two weeks have passed since the start of BU’s Study Abroad program in London, and life in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has proven to be spectacular. In …
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Vegemite on the Barbie: Sydney at a Glance
Something about Australia has always intrigued me. Perhaps it’s the grizzled-but-gentlemanly way the countrymen have been portrayed in movies like Crocodile Dundee. Australia seemed to me to be a man’s …
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English Breakfast: The Appetizer Sampler
A new semester means a new crop of eager students shipping off overseas to participate in some of BU’s many diverse Study Abroad programs. At 326 students, BU’s London program …
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An American in Paris: Parting Thoughts
Somehow (actually, I know how. It was that whole time marches on thing) I have reached the end of my semester in Paris. Final papers have been written, final exams …
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An American in Paris: You’re Welcome?
Over the past several weeks, I have slowly become aware of the fact that I am not awful at French anymore. This is not to say, of course, that I …
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An American in Paris: Thanksgiving
I have always been one of those people who believes strongly in the sanctity of Thanksgiving. It isn’t a just a buffer holiday so people have a reason for a …
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An American in Paris: Franglish
It is a sad truth of language acquisition – or at least language acquisition as I have been experiencing it for the past three months – that instead of mastering …
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An American in Paris: Socially Awkward
Social awkwardness is part of the human condition. Some of us are more prone to it than others, to be sure, but no one escapes the menace entirely. I like …
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An American in Paris: Being American in Paris
When I first moved to Paris, I had fantasies that my French would magically become flawless, that I would never get lost, that I would somehow be able to afford …
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