Truth Bending and Paris LAX
I live in Parisian maids quarters, a room slightly smaller than an average dorm room with a bed 4 feet off the ground and a sink taking up half of the room. I…
Sienese Please!
As I sit in my Italian living room, watching Italian Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, just having finished my Italian feast with my Italian roommates, I ruminate upon my newfound foreign-ness. While…
Introductions
Hello everyone! My name is Kelly Parlin, and I am a junior studying abroad for a year in Kyoto, Japan through the Associated Kyoto Program at Doshisha University. As part of the program,…
Freedom Brings Opportunity, Opportunity Makes Your Future
My – and everyone’s – favorite line from Risky Business is when Curtis Armstrong’s character, Miles, is trying to convince a young Tom Cruise, i.e. Joel, to abandon his inhibitions, discard his fear: “Joel,…
xoxo, Robinson Crusoe
It has been some time since I last posted; time has flown. My first English assignment for the course Romance to Realism was to read Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. My professor really hyped it up before…
T.I.N.C.
Click-hello Connecticut College, friends, family, ladies, and gentlemen. Had I gone abroad to Europe or South America, I would have started this blog with a familiar “Hola” or “Bonjour.” However since I am…
