Moving In From the time I graduated in May 2024 until September 2025, I was living at my parents’ house on Long Island. Thankfully, I have parents who were willing to have a 34-year-old around their house for a year. It wasn’t easy, as I’ve… Read More »From Living at Home to Living in NYC
Graduation It’s amazing how quickly time goes by. Three years and seven semesters later, my time in Blacksburg has come to an end. Graduation took place last Thursday on May 9th, and now with my thesis (Electronic Thesis Dissertation) successfully submitted and approved by the… Read More »Three Years in the Making: Graduation and Thesis
“It is the island at its most scenic, a mist-wrapped land of emerald peaks and stupendous views, of hillsides carpeted with tea plantations and graced by astonishing waterfalls. This is a place where you can wear a fleece in the daytime and cuddle up beside a… Read More »The Hill Country of Sri Lanka
I’ve wanted to write this blog post for a week now, but I haven’t gotten around to it. I have been exceptionally busy, but I had to get my computer fixed and I’ve been concentrating on getting music I lost on to it and downloading new music.… Read More »Beer, Beach and Paintball
Jerez de la Frontera is my new home and the place I’ll be spending the next 10 months teaching English. It’s a really old city located in southern Spain, not far from the beach. It’s a beautiful city with historic buildings and tree lined roads;… Read More »Jerez de la Frontera
Cadiz is a port city located on the south western tip of Spain in the Province of Andalusia. Also in Andalusia are the towns of Seville, Granada and Cordoba.. It is the longest longest inhabited city in Western Europe at about 3,000 years old. It… Read More »Carnival in Cadiz