I’ve been all over the place this year, from studying in England to traveling in Italy and Puerto Rico to coming back home to southeast Kansas. For me, one of the only constants of the past year has involved reading. Whether I was alone in quarantine in England or enjoying the beautiful beaches in Puerto […]
Read More A Year in BooksIt seems like every single one of my blog posts starts by mentioning how quickly time has gone by since my last post. True to that trend, time has flown by in the two months since I last wrote! In that time, I submitted my dissertation, flew home from London, took a trip to Puerto […]
Read More From London to San JuanWhew, the last month and a half really flew by! I still can’t believe that I spent a month in Italy. Now that I am back in England and officially out of quarantine, I want to share all the details of my trip while they are still fresh in my mind. So buckle up, because […]
Read More One Month in ItalyIn the time since I last posted, I have continued to chip away at my dissertation while also visiting a variety of Shakespeare-related sites here in England! I started with a trip to London to watch A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe Theater, which was followed by a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s […]
Read More All Things ShakespeareThis past weekend, I hopped on a train and spent a magnificent three days in Dover! Those of you who read my last blog post will know that I was looking forward to seeing the White Cliffs of Dover. However, once I arrived in Dover, I actually ended up seeing a few other sights as […]
Read More The White Cliffs of DoverAs the United Kingdom began to emerge from lockdown, I had more opportunities over the past month to really experience what life is (usually) like in this country. Three of my best days in May were spent visiting London, where I was able to meet up with friends and see some of the most well-known […]
Read More May in ReviewLike so many things in 2020, my plans to regularly post on this blog didn’t end up going as planned. Between spending some of my first months in a new country in lockdown to spending three extra months back at home after Christmas, my UK experience up to this point certainly hasn’t been what I […]
Read More It’s Been a MinuteLast December, I was honored to be selected as a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship. This scholarship, which was established by the United Kingdom in 1953 in recognition of the Marshall Plan, finances the graduate education of American students studying in the United Kingdom. Even though the world looks very different today than it did […]
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Clara Kathleen 