JEN HANTZ AUSTRIA COLUMNIST Dear Homebound Frannies, waking up at about 6 in the morning was rough, but I am learning that sometimes the rough things can make it worthwhile; and besides, we couldContinue Reading
JEN HANTZ AUSTRIA COLUMNIST Dear Homebound Frannies, you know how a picture can never capture the real thing? Leading up to this semester, I kept seeing pictures of the Kartause: the chapel,Continue Reading
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST Well, here I am, writing my last Austria column. This semester has gone by in the blink of an eye, and I feel like it wasContinue Reading
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST Here in Gaming, everywhere we look is absolute craziness. 5 a.m. starts and 1 a.m. nights, missing trains and running to catch one-minute connections, waking upContinue Reading
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST At the moment, I am writing this article from a kitchen table in an Airbnb in Florence, Italy, where some friends and I are spending ourContinue Reading
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST One of the amazing opportunities that the Austria semester has afforded me so far is the ability to attend Mass celebrated in the Byzantine rite on campus.Continue Reading
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST I’m going to be completely honest — I hate traveling. I hate sleeping in new beds every night; I hate getting motion sick on long bus rides; andContinue Reading
ELOISA GUTIERREZ AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDENT It is week three, and we leave for our pilgrimage in two hours. Four days in Rome and then three days in Assisi. While the excitementContinue Reading
ELOISA GUTTIEREZ AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Hallo! Guten tag! Tschau! It is another snowy day here in the Austrian Alps, where (by the time you read this) our third week of classesContinue Reading
MICHELLE SAMANO AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDANT One of the most exciting and most popular trips happened last week: the Poland pilgrimage. With 90 percent of the students in Gaming signing up eachContinue Reading