My Parents First Time in Colmar - An April Guide

Last month my family and I visited Colmar for the first time! We had impeccable timing and ended up staying there for the Easter weekend, meaning we got to experience the lovely Easter market that's held there once a year. In this post, I'll share some photos of what we did and what recomme…

Post-Thesis Life: Goodbye Dijon

Note: This post was written May 1st, 2023.
Before writing this post, I decided to go back and read my ‘moving to France’ announcement I posted in May 2021. I remember the anxiety I felt about the application process, the excitement I had about possibly living in a new country, and how ready I was to…

My Parents First Time in Paris - A Mini Travel Guide

With my thesis defense coming up, my parents decided to visit me in France and have their very first international trip! I planned out the trip a month or two in advance to make sure we could hit a lot of popular spots, so in this post I'll list some of the places we went and things we did.We h…

VLOG: Our First Date

 Hello everyone~ Finally, I have a new vlog to show you! This was taken ages ago, I think back in late September, but it's been sitting in the vault waiting to be edited and now it's finally done.  The day of we actually recorded quite a bit of content, but a lot of it ended up being shaky, …

The Myth of 'Cheap' European Travel

When I informed friends and family that I would be doing my masters degree in Europe for the next 2 years, the comment I heard the most was that I'll be doing a lot of travelling and I thought, naively, that I would probably be going to a different country every other weekend.

Unfortunately, it…

Discovering Dijon (Bakery, Darcy Park) VLOG

Video below! 
Hello friends, I am FINALLY back with another vlog! This one has taken quite a while to escape the archives and see the light of day again (I blame constant classes and no time) but it's finally here and I'm so excited to share it!In this vlog I'll walk around Dijon a bit, …

Feeling 'At Home' in Dijon

The concept of 'home', what does it mean when you're living abroad?
I've been in Dijon for a month and a half, which is a relatively short period of time, and even so most of my original expectations when it comes to France have already shifted dramatically. 
I had a really hard time …

5 Things To Know Before Studying in France

Today marks my one month anniversary of arriving in France, so to celebrate I wanted to pen down some things that I think would have been helpful to know ahead of time. These are all things you tend to discover as you go through the visa process in France, but knowing about them when you first star…