It was a familiar fall day. The leaves had turned a burnt yellow and red. The sun was out–I almost didn’t need my thin jacket at all. We made sure to take the scenic route to Concord so that we could take it all in. Our first stop was Walden Pond, made famous by Henry…
The worst plane rides are the ones where they tell you that you won’t be landing in your planned destination. We had just finished a long weekend in Copenhagen and were eager to return to the old, creaky wooden castle in the Netherlands, where we spent all our weekdays for those three months. Our castle…
This is my very first blog post. I’m excited! My name is Emily Curtis, and I’m a writer. I’ve considered myself a writer since high school. But to be truthful, I’m not always writing for pleasure. And that’s okay. Things change. You get busy, and you forget. And writers block is way too real. However,…
It was September of 2019 when I left the United States to study abroad in the Netherlands. I took a plane from Boston Logan Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, with excitement and fear. Before that, I had traveled out of the country about two times. And even then, I had my family with me.…