Well I am now well and truly settled in my home away from home, El Paso. Study/life goes on as usual here, have just finished midterm exams and we are now heading toward final exams in 7 weeks time, can't believe how fast the time has flown. My job here is still pretty full on, but I've found my footing well enough. Now I don't freak out so much when people ask for career advice or tips on their resume and I can now usually bulls*** my way through it pretending...

What a place. Don't really know where to begin! Flew in from Vancouver on Tuesday the 16th of August to be picked up by one of my bosses Betsy. She is really lovely and took me on a driven tour around the city of El Paso and around the HUGE campus. To walk from one end to the other its a good 20 minute walk, add 38 degree heat to that and you want to die a little bit. Betsy dropped me off at my apartment to have a lovely reunion with Nicole which consisted of us ...

Willow (myself) and Fern (Davina) met up one lovely night in Vancouver, after almost exactly a year apart. We had a lovely reunion and caught up on each others gossip, mine from Melbourne and Davinas from her adventures of riding her bike across Canada from Montreal to Vancouver. It was here that Davina told me that we would be camping for the next few weeks. She swears she prewarned me, I swear she didn't. So off we went to Canadian Tire, basically the Walmart o...

It was with a heavy heart that I left Europe behind after a life changing month which truly reconfirmed my love for all things european - food and beer. Oh and the people. Was wonderful to see my relatives in Belfast after almost 3 years since last being there. Many a pints were consumed, and the craic was good as always. I feel pretty lucky to have somewhere I can call a second home, and feel so comfortable and welcomed there. With my Irish passport its also muc...

This blog and the photos I took won't be enough to describe or do justice to what the Alhambra is or meant to me. I had been looking forward to going all week after hearing such great things about it from Mum, Dad and Jane, other friends and general knowledge. Our session to enter the Palace Nazaries was for 5pm, where the temperature at that time was a balmy 39 degrees. The palace is easily the most intricate and beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life...