I think the University of Maine’s Study Abroad Office would probably rest a little easier at night if I’d chosen somewhere other than Israel for…
Photo courtesy of Brawley Benson Outside the train, dark fields faded and hovered in sight before disappearing behind thickets of trees. The scene seemed to repeat itself with no…
Kathleen with her host sister, Clara, after hiking up the knoll featured in the background. Photo provided by Kathleen Brown. Before studying abroad, you are confronted with many questions from your somewhat confused yet supportive loved ones, most of which are standard inquiry. Sometimes you…
Having international roommates can be intimidating and exhilarating. Even without variations in cultures and languages, consider how different people can be. When I first came…
The hallways of the Main Quad Building at the University College Cork. Photo by Taylor Houdlette If you ever get to study abroad, consider a small city, or at least do your research ahead of time and see which cities…
Taylor Houdlette sitting on the coast of the Aran Islands. Photo courtesy of Houdlette. Pretend that you're sitting outside for a moment. You're on a cold, metal park bench. It's drizzling and hulking bodies pass by, dark raincoats…
In our world today, it is easy to be misled by what we see on social media. Sites Apps like Instagram let people portray a…
Street art in Cork. Photo courtesy of Taylor Houdlette. It's not every day that you come face-to-face with one of your favorite “Game of Thrones” villains. It's especially unexpected while walking past an electrical…
The first time I heard about the Irish housing crisis was during my first week in Ireland, when our family decided to go on a…
Ribera Alcarrache, Extremadura, Spain. Photo courtesy of Finn Bradenday. As of Monday, Sept. 24, I’ll have been back in Maine for exactly three months. I’m still struggling to come to a conclusion on the…