All posts tagged phone
A Thousand Words
I love taking photos. My phone never leaves the firm grasp of my hand in the case of being able to snap a quick photo of an amazing building or […]
Advice I Wish I Knew Before I Moved to Bogotá
Considering I’ve only been here for two months, this list is by no means exhausted. I’m always being put out of my comfort zone here and learning new things about […]
Year Abroad. Part 17: La nuit de la verrerie
Nights are normally quieter here in Aix, except for one night. There is a road here called La Rue de la Verrerie and once a year, this bar-lined street in the old town, towered over […]
Year Abroad. Part 13: Bridging the Gap
New year, new semester. After a two-week baptism of fire in the French examination system, culminating in a gym furnished with 400 white plastic garden chairs, in which examiners answer […]
Patricia Highsmith’s Little Tales of Misogyny- Little Tales for Nasty Women
Now don’t be fooled by the title, Highsmith’s short story collection doesn’t paint pictures of rotten men, and victim women. Instead Highsmith creates a sweetshop’s worth of lurid, eccentric, strange, […]
Year Abroad. Part 10: Home time
So here marks the end of my first semester, and it makes sense to end it as I began: hot, tired and uncomfortable. I’m sitting on a Ryanair flight to […]
QM Public Engagement and Enterprise Awards 2017 – 08.01.17
Award ceremonies can be an overlong, smug exercise in self-congratulation. Or an opportunity to celebrate hard work, excellence, and significant contributions. Last Tuesday evening in the gorgeous Octagon Room in […]