Austrian Adventures
Austria Adventures: Spanish lessons in Barcelona
MICHELLE SAMANO STAFF WRITER This past weekend was one I had been looking forward to for a long time. As a Spanish minor, I am always looking for opportunities to get some conversational practice in. Being in Austria is convenient because so many countries are a quick plane ride away. So, for my second free […]
Austria Adventures: Conquering through diversity in Liverpool
JACOB WATSON AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDENT Flight delays, cancelled trains, overpriced taxis, talking to a Muslim about the reason for my faith, paying £12 for a pack of smokes, being offered cocaine, drinking terrible beer and being asked by some drunk pillock if I can get him half off at Burger King. Man, I love Liverpool. I […]
Austrian Adventures: The beauty of a ‘tech-free’ life
GRACIE WILLIAMS AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Of all the differences students encounter upon transitioning from main campus to Gaming, perhaps one of the most significant is the lack of Wi-Fi and technology. Here in Austria, communication is limited, to say the least. Wi-Fi is only in certain public areas, not including the bedrooms, and is turned off […]
Austria Column: Finding peace in beauty
DANIEL KIM AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT This Friday my friends and I went on a day trip to Hallstatt in Austria. It took us about four hours to get from Gaming to Hallstatt by train. When we arrived, we had to take a ferry across Hallstätter Lake to a small and adorable medieval village. Calm, crystal clear […]
AUSTRIA COLUMN: Vienna brings encounters with church beauty
BY DANIEL KIM AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Almost a month has passed since summer ended and I left home for another chapter of my life. It seems like yesterday that I said farewell to my mother and little brother in the airport, and now I am familiar with freezing creek water in front of the Kartause and […]
AUSTRIA COLUMN: Finding inspiration in the people around you
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT I can’t believe how rapidly this semester is flying by! At the moment, we are all dispersed throughout the continent for our 10-day break. I myself am fortunate enough to be meeting my parents in Barcelona for the week. When we all return, we’ll have a mere 5 weeks left […]
Austria Adventures: Staying back
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Midterms week is upon us here at the Kartause. It’s actually kind of a crazy week —we’ve got midterms Monday through Thursday, and we leave on Thursday night for a seven-hour bus ride straight to Poland. Taking all of this into consideration as well as the fact that this was […]
Austria adventures: Rome is where the heart is
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT We here in Austria are reeling from the crazy, activity-filled, 10-day Rome and Assisi trip. Given that you all on main campus are begrudgingly returning back to good old Steubenville from spring break, I think that we are all in the same boat. Italy overall was absolutely incredible – much […]
Austria Adventures: trip planning, expectations and Slovenia
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA COLUMNIST I survived the first weekend of free travel. This weekend was absolutely wonderful. I feel like all the anxiety I had related to planning and executing a free-travel weekend was completely obliterated, which is a relief. A group of seven other girls and I traveled four hours south of Austria […]
Austria Adventures: Hostels, shopping and relics in Vienna
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT We’re back from our last school excursion … well, at least for two weeks. We spent Valentine’s Day weekend in Vienna, Austria. This was our first experience with overnight travel in a hostel, and it was so much fun. I think it has been my highlight so far. We began […]