Austria column
The Chronicles of Austria: The Austrian experience
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 could sleep on the bus. This weekend, we were exploring Vienna, and even though Vienna was waiting for us, we could not wait for it. Of course, […]
Willkommen in Österreich: The new home away from home
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, the stairs, the yard, the creek jump. It is always different than the actual thing and it is still different than what you would expect. […]
Austria Column: An ode to America
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 was just yesterday that I was sharing with you all both my excitements and apprehensions for the semester, both my joys and my fears. Pushing through […]
Austria Column: A new perspective
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 up 10 minutes before class on Monday and realizing that you forgot to do your homework during your weekend in Paris… Honestly, it can get pretty […]
Austria Column: What happened to our churches?
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 our 10-day break. The biggest tourist attraction here in Florence in the Duomo. The construction of this enormous church began in the 1200s and was completed […]
Austria Column: Many traditions, one church
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. The small Byzantine chapel nestled beneath the Kartause classrooms is decorated with a colorful array of icons and houses an ornate tabernacle in the center. And throughout […]
Austria Column: Travel will not change your life
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; and I HATE hearing “I don’t know; what do you want to do?” every time friends try to make plans. And at the end of the day, all […]
Austria Adventures: The Big Three
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 excitement was building this last week, our classes, papers and looming exams did not leave much time for daydreaming. I am learning to love the Gaming […]
Austria Adventures: Ganz Anders
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 classes has come to a close. After a whirlwind week of orientation, we unpacked and hit the ground running. Between the intense days of study and […]
Austria Adventures: Out of the ashes we grow
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 each semester for this optional school trip, I had high expectations. But little did I know how much I would get out of this trip on […]