travel
Goodbye, Thailand
Wandering around the Warorot Market, I flashed a photo to a vendor, who pointed me toward a narrow stall to my left. Down the aisle, I lost momentum, and presented my picture to someone new, who gave me my next direction. After wandering downstream like a lost pinball, I found myself underneath some foreign overpass (again!) amongst the treasures I had been searching for: grani...
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Pomona Goes to St. Petersburg!
Rebekah Cramerus, '14 and Linguistics Major, explores St. Petersburg during her year abroad in Russia.
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Pomona Goes to Tokyo
Will Hunt, ’14 and Linguistics major, enjoys his time studying abroad in Tokyo, Japan!
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Studying Abroad: Our Edinburgh Adventure!
Studying Abroad: (Suddenly) No Longer a Tourist
A boy, ~9 and dressed in a navy suit (a typical uniform, it seems, in Edinburgh,) gestured at me through the iron gate of his schoolyard. Face pressed against the mesh between the slats, he asked if I could toss him a toy (presumably thrown) in the middle of the sidewalk. I picked it up and delivered it over the fence, he thanked me in a perfect, adorable Scottish accent, and...
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On My Way
After hours spent planning and packing, dozens of lists scrawled on scraps of paper, and piles that took over my room in an attempt at organisation, I was finally on my way. Sitting on the tarmac of Sydney’s Kingsford-Smith Airport, I pulled out my iPod only to discover a slight oversight; in the early hours of that morning, I had decided I should update my iPod’s software befo...
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