Aero: Kevin Urbaitis – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home

Aero: Kevin Urbaitis – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home … … My host family was one of my favorite parts about the whole entire trip to Costa Rica. From greeting them at the airport for the first time till hugging them goodbye outside the airport for the last time, they were the most […]

Aero: Annie Livingston – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home

Aero: Annie Livingston – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home … … My host family, Mayra, her son Pablo, and Pablo’s daughter Maria Paula picked the four of us who would be staying with her up directly  from the airport and brought us to their house. It had been a long and tiring day […]

Folium: No Bones About It – Day of the Dead Is Finding New Life via WSJ

Folium: No Bones About It: Day of the Dead Is Finding New Life One of the Mexican holidays that I have heard a lot about is the Day of the Dead. I always thought that this holiday was nothing more than the Mexican version of Halloween. This article taught me what the Day of the […]

Aero: Gabrielle Johnson – France 2014 – City Life

Aero: Gabrielle Johnson – France 2014 – City Life Walking down the city streets of France was slightly dissimilar from many cities in the United States. Coming from a small town, it was interesting to see the hustle and fast pace of France. It seemed as if, every street was loaded with cafes, bakeries, and […]

Aero: Kelsey Hamilton – France 2014 – City Life

Aero: Kelsey Hamilton – France 2014 – City Life The city is never a place I have visited often, even here at home. I have been to New York a few times, and Rochester but never truly spent a long period of time in a city. Quite frankly half the time I can’t stand the […]

Aero: Kelsey Hamilton – France 2014 – Family Life

Aero: Kelsey Hamilton – France 2014 – Family Life I come from a loud obnoxious large Irish family of farmers, when we’re together we are either fighting, eating, or drinking. In a way I expected to be placed with a loud family such as mine, but what I got was nothing like that at all.  […]

Aero: Kelsey Hamilton – France 2014 – Life at School

Aero: Kelsey Hamilton – France 2014 – Life at School As I prepared myself for school my first day, I wasn’t sure what to expect. My thoughts brought me to some movies I had watched before. With a European school being very formal, and uptight; and it made me think to myself that I was going […]

Aero: Claire Darling – France 2014 – Life at School

Aero: Claire Darling – France 2014 – Life at School The French high school had a much different atmosphere than those in the United States. It seemed as though the students had more freedom.  The amount of kids who smoked at the high school was incredible. It seemed like everyone did. Smoking is only allowed in […]

Aero: Claire Darling – France 2014 – City Life

Aero: Claire Darling – France 2014 – City Life Paris was a completely different world. Vitrè seemed more like the authentic quiet France that I expected, while Paris is a mixture of cultures, languages and a whole lot of tourists. Paris also contains tons of monuments, museums and important historical sights. It was like a much […]

Aero: Claire Darling – France 2014 – Family Life

Aero: Claire Darling – France 2014 – Family Life My family was very kind, inviting and fun, I can’t think of a better way to truly experience the French lifestyle. They live on a small cow farm in Erbrée which is outside of Vitrè. In a lot of ways it was like home, even the fresh […]