Austrian Travel Column
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 […]
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: 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 […]
Austria Column: Guten Tag from Gaming, Austria!
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDANT As I am writing this column, we have just officially wrapped up orientation week here in the Kartause. If I were to sum it up in one word? COLD! Lots of snow, and up here in the mountains, this cold air has a way of slipping in through any and […]
Austrian Adventures: Reflecting on a semester of a lifetime
BY HANNAH CRITES AUSTRIA CORRESPONDANT I am flying home in 28 days. All my traveling is done and the only thing standing between me and home are four papers and finals. The students in Gaming just returned from the 10 day pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi and it’s starting to hit me that I’m going […]
Austrian Adventures: Patience in Lourdes
BY HANNAH CRITES AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT There is an incredible difference between traveling as a tourist and traveling as a pilgrim. We all know the difference. Tourists travel with their faces behind the camera lens trying to see and do everything at once. Pilgrims travel with meaning – with intention. They travel with something higher than […]
Austrian Adventures: Proud to be an American
BY HANNAH CRITES STAFF WRITER Over the course of the semester, I find that I am constantly comparing America to Europe and almost wish that America could adopt more cultural and technical aspects of Europe. I wish that America had a high speed train system similar to Europe, making it easier to travel. I wish […]
Austrian Adventures: Pictures in Auschwitz
BY HANNAH CRITES AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT I took one picture when I was in Auschwitz. I went to Auschwitz with no plans of taking pictures out of respect of the dead. I have wanted to visit since learning about it in my 7th grade history class. It fascinated me. I just couldn’t fathom that such a […]