Colombia - Study Abroad

I am spending the spring semester of my junior year studying abroad in Barranquilla, Colombia! Below I will be posting updates from my trip!

A Welcome in Each Farewell

I’m home! And enjoying the beautiful Colorado sunshine and dry air. Wait, what? I mean the rainiest June I have ever seen and humidity...

Painfully Privileged

This blog post has been sitting on my metaphorical writing desk for quite some time and as the semester draws to a close I have finally...

A Smattering of Stories

It’s hard to believe the semester is nearly over. I’ve got a couple more posts in the works before it all comes to a close but in...

A City Reinvented

It’s time for part 2 of my Semana Santa adventuring with my parents. What’s next on the list? Murder Capital of the World turned Safest...

Elvis’s Amazon

Semana Santa, or my spring break, was a couple weeks ago and my parents flew down to go adventuring with me. So naturally, I decided we...

First Rain in Barranquilla

I couldn’t sleep last night so I present you with a little 2am writing… It’s the strangest thing I exist between incarnations of water In...

Food and Fabric Shopping

There are a few things about Barranquilla that I’ve been saving up photos of and I think it’s about time I share some of them with you!...

A Return to Sweaty Paradise

It’s hard to beat hiking up a seemingly endless hill in the midst of a tropical forest, so sweaty you feel you could ring the liters of...

Lost in a Sea of Carnival

From the minute we arrived in Barranquilla we were told about Carnival. Then the hype leading into the event was enormous. The question...

Colombia’s Miami?

Just two hours from Barranquilla is the historic city of Cartagena or, as it felt like to our group, ‘The Miami of Colombia.’ Unlike...

In the Streets of Barranquilla

My week hasn’t been wildly exciting but I figured you might enjoy some commentary on life in the streets here because that can be quite...

Homesick in Paradise

Ok, so you know how I haven’t mentioned being homesick down here? Well, somehow I really haven’t been… until this weekend. I would have...

Am I on vacation? Oh right… we are here for school

Part 1: Why I think I’m on vacation Let me start off with gratitude to the Barranquilleros (what the locals seem to call themselves) and...

First Impressions

Hola! As the first week of this big adventure is coming to a close I wanted to take the time to share some photos and first impressions...