6-Day Study Tour This past week has been awesome. We left for our study tour bright and early on Thursday morning and headed to our first stop Bastogne. We stopped and visited the memorial that the Belgian people have to the United States for WWII. It was very beautiful, but it was FREEZING! Especially once we climbed the slippery spiral stairs to the top of the memorial. After Bastogne, we moved on to Luxembourg City, one of the richest cities in Europe. We e...

The Wonderful City of Maastricht We started off our semester with orientation and welcome from our coordinators and a school tour. They have a student network that works with international students and helps us get acquainted to the city. They showed us around the Universiteit of Maastricht and led us to the Vrijthof shopping district. We then bought phones. We think we got a pretty good deal and we didn't have to buy Zach Morris phones! We then walked back to ...

Traveling to Maastricht 1/18/09-1/19/09 After spending all of last week packing and shopping for my trip, Nick surprised me by coming home for the weekend which was awesome. I tried several times to take stuff out of my two 50+ lb. bags, but it's really hard to part ways with my clothes (haha). My mom, Nick, and I left Fort Wayne for Indianapolis around noon on Sunday for the airport. We stopped to eat at P.F. Chang's and meet up with friends. My day was going s...