Job Update and UMKC Reflection
I realize I have not posted anything on here in an entire year. I also realize that many of my friends and family members have no idea what I’m doing […]
I realize I have not posted anything on here in an entire year. I also realize that many of my friends and family members have no idea what I’m doing […]
Sorry, loyal fans. I suppose I’m succumbing to the second-semester epidemic that seems to afflict so many bloggers abroad. Though I admit I still pine for a good local coffee […]
As an unabashed francophile, when I saw “7 Reasons You Should Teach Your Children To Speak French” making the social media rounds, the title alone practically demanded a repost. When I actually […]
Imagine you’re walking down a quaint cobble-stoned street, the belfry’s quarter-hourly melodies ringing in the background, medieval spires rising in the distance, buildings passing by whose façades have been imprinted […]
I remember reading a passage in a university French class that described the new and unusual invasion of the Halloween phenomenon in Europe. The excerpt described a rowdy crowd of […]
Although cultural excursions and discoveries make perhaps the best reading, I’m sure some of my readers are wondering what exactly I’m doing here in Belgium. Yes, I am an “English […]
For most of the world, football (the kind us Americans quaintly call “soccer”) elicits nearly religious fervor, and only at game days at the University of Kansas have I seen […]
Yes, Mons is magnificent, Belgium is beautiful, and I feel like I am adapting well to life here. But I do not want to give the impression through these blog […]
Americans aren’t the only one with cruel and unusual entry procedures for university social organizations. In Belgium, le baptême — literally “the baptism” — is a process by which prospective […]
This weekend was the celebration of pseudo-independence the French-speaking region of Belgium, la Fête de la Communauté française de Belgique. Ever since 1975, Belgians who speak French have commemorated September 27, […]