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There is saying that goes somewhere along the lines of you need to find a place to call home that can be your Paris. What this means is that you need to find a location to live and work that is as ...

This summer in Cádiz, in the south of Spain, I got used to a few things. For three weeks I would get out of bed and see this cathedral standing right in front of me, lit up with the morning sun ...

People always say that a picture is worth a thousand words. While that may be true, one word can also be worth a thousand words if it comes from the right person and at the right time. I studied ...

Florence has been rainy the last few days. The sun will be out, beating down on us, then abruptly, we’re caught in a torrential downpour. Weather patterns are definitely different here. One ...

by Kathryn K. It’s hard to believe that tomorrow I’ll be on a plane flying home. It feels like I have both known these people forever and yet it was just yesterday that we first met ...

Looking at all of the different programs to learn French and spend the summer with was the easy part, but choosing one was the hard part. I chose Abbey Road summer study abroad because of the ...

After a morning of class, students went kayaking on the Charles River Monday afternoon. This was the first time in a kayak for some, but they were all naturals! We stopped for ice cream near the ...

by Savannah B. During our weekend excursions we traveled to St. Tropez and Grasse. We travelled to St. Tropez via a two and a half hour boat ride. When you go to St. Tropez bring a lot of money. ...

The fact that we are leaving in less than a week is sadly starting to sink in and it stinks.  We don’t want to go home at all.  It feels like Florence is our real home and going back to the US ...

At this point, we have less than a week here in Aix-en-Provence and just one final blog post after this one. Therefore, many others and I are scrambling to finish some things. Maybe work on our ...

This week I really enjoyed painting scenes of Nice and the surrounding countryside. Working from life, sitting in the street or park has provided me with a new and refreshing perspective to begin ...

This entire week has been filled with so many activities I can barely keep up with all the new things I’m learning. We went to Avignon to tour the Palais des Papes and ate lunch in the courtyard ...