Food in Japan: A Photo Essay

Some (but not all) of my favorite eats šŸ™‚ Traditional Japanese breakfasts can be eaten at hotels and ryokans (traditional Japanese inns).Ā Thereā€™s often natto (fermented soybeans), some kind of fish, rice, soup, and vegetables. Okonomiyaki & Yakisoba The leftmost and rightmost pictures are okonomiyaki and the center is yakisoba. Hiroshima and Osaka were the two most popular spots I ate

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The Ecuadorian Coast Detailed

ā€œSave the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snailsā€ – George Carlin (American actor). Vasula melones is a small species of marine whelk (carnivorous snail) that resides along the coasts of MeĢxico, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and the GalaĢpagos Islands.1 It can be found in and around the intertidal zone of these regions, where the waves crash

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Query about Quito’s Carbon Emissions

Image shows the green-ness of Quito with the city off in the distance.

ā€œAnybody whoā€™s been to Ecuador wants to go back because itā€™s beautiful out thereā€ – Michael Steger (American actor).  Unlike Amherst which ended its winter break in early February, my program in Ecuador began in early January, meaning I had just two weeks in between the end of my studies in Spain and when I would have to depart for

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Summarizing Sustainability in Spain

Itā€™s hard to recap everything I learned about Spain and its sustainability practices in a single blog post. Condensing an entire semesterā€™s worth of knowledge and research is immensely difficult, and I never know what information is most pertinent to the topic at hand. Given this small disclosure, please note that what I talk about is only a small fraction

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Reflections on a Semester Away: A Look into the Varied Experiences of Visiting Students

Beginning My ReflectionsĀ  Boy, what a semester it has been. As is always the case with me, time felt so slow– too slow– in the beginning, but looking back at it from the end, it went by extremely quickly. My semester in Japan has been full of surprises (both good and occasionally not-so-good) and so with this post, I will

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Tips and Tricks and Learning New Things in Madrid

Ā”Hola a todes! Ā”Bienvenido a vuelta a mi blog de sustanabilidad (translation: welcome back to my sustainability blog). Iā€™ve now been in Spain for approximately 24 hours, and, my goodness, has it been a wild ride! I canā€™t remember the last time when I felt more overwhelmedā€”and I once moved across the country to live in a new city by

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First Impressions and Preconceived Notions of France

The Eiffel Tower from afar lit up at night

Hi everyone! This blog post will talk about some of my first impressions of Paris, the largest and most surprising differences I noticed between Paris and the United States, and some of my personal experiences and feelings as I spent time abroad.Ā    As I settled into my classes at Hamilton in France and Sorbonne Nouvelle, I was stricken by

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