You Should Go to Cuba
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Spring break in Cuba was all I could have dreamed of and more.
Read MoreHow Living in Europe Taught Me to Love My Country
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Living in Europe was not at all what I expected. I thought I would fall in love with the continent and want to stay forever, by to my great surprise, it taught me how to love my own country.
Read MoreSolo Traveling on a Budget
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The best of my travel advice right now for solo traveling, especially on a budget!
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Wherever You Go, There You Are
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I thought there was Real Laura, Summer Laura, and even Europe Laura but as it turns out, there’s only one Laura and there’s no getting rid of her.
Read MoreA Weekend in Budapest
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They call Budapest “The Pearl of the Danube” for good reason! 4 days in Budapest wasn’t nearly enough and I’m already dreaming of visiting again someday.
Read MoreOctober Digest
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A whirlwind month of settling into life in Prague plus trips to Poland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany!
Read MoreA Weekend in Belgium
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A weekend trip in Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, and Luxembourg City with our friend Thomas!
Read MoreA Weekend in Poland
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We spent a weekend in Poland enjoying all that Krakow had to offer and touring the museum on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps.
Read MoreThe Beginning of Life in Prague
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The first few weeks studying abroad in Prague- orientation, day trips, and new friends!
Read MoreMay Digest
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GA-SC-NC-VA-MD-DE-NJ-NY-VT-QC. It’s been a bit of a month! From the end of my second year of Seminary to the beginning of my Chaplaincy program, May was full to the brim.
Read MoreIndia
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In the middle of your time at Columbia, all M.Div students are required to go on an immersion learning trip, either in the city of Atlanta, within the United States, or somewhere around the world. I was chosen for the trip to India, as one of 14 students and led by 3 faculty members. Above all, I am so grateful to this incredible group of peers and professors. I was constantly encouraged and challenged by each of them.
Read MoreEthiopia Part One: Selam-no
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When my friends call me adventurous, often I think to myself, “you should meet my parents.” No matter how adventurous my life may seem, it’s just a fraction of what I inherited from my crazy parents. They met (via each others' prayer letters) while she was working as a missionary in Italy and he was in the Peace Corps in Western Samoa. Once they married and had kids, the adventures didn’t cease and our family travelled all around the world together. After my brother graduated from high school, my parents decided that turning 60 was no reason to stop the adventures, so my mom got a job with the US State Department as an English Language Fellow in Ethiopia. My dad took a leave of absence from work and followed her to Hawassa.
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