There came a moment in which I could no longer think rationally about the world, in which I began to feel like never before.
I would have expected this to be burdensome, too much to handle. But it´s...
Anybody out there? It's been a while, I know. Here's some eye-candy from a local newspaper here in India to get back in the game:
Back in Jaipur, and it feels so good. Something I'm noticing: after...
This is Richael Best, your Study Abroad Blogger living in Aix-en-Provence for the semester. I just got home from my painting class, and the sun is setting.
Last week we had a week without class to correspond...
"You're here in Spain. You have to learn our Spanish."
One of my coworkers at the Centro Hispano-Dominicano, where I have my internship, has said this to me several times after Latin American words...
Investments in the 28 poorest communities
Live better
These are actions, not words
We've stopped being the country's poorest.
Say the government's propaganda campaign to hide the reality of...
Here in Oventik, I'm taking a tsotsil language class with someone who works in the local Zapatista secondary school. Someone asked him why he wanted to work in the school, and he told us that that was...
Damn, it happened again. I have this unfortunate tendency to stifle my own writing and put off writing about easy or simple things because I have multiple big ideas for posts, and I feel like I owe it...
The Pioneer searches out Whitties who bring an extra splash of sartorial daring to the campus. This week's Style Spotlight: the cast of The Vagina Monologues.
Your trusty study abroad blogger Richael Best here, coming to you live from Aix-en-Provence.
This Saturday my History of Provence class went to Arles to visit the ancient theatre and amphitheatre and...
The Pioneer searches out Whitties who bring an extra splash of sartorial daring to the campus. This week's Style Spotlight: first-year Lindsey Holdren.
I've been told that some people thought my last post about school sounded disappointed. I can see how that came across, but I just meant it to highlight some of the cultural differences between the...
