Student guitarist Rick Carrizales is loving the city where he has lived since September and is wistful about his study abroad semester ending soon. “I can’t believe this whole thing is ending in two weeks,” he said yesterday while we walked the streets surrounding the Nakas school. An El Paso, Texas native who was lit [...]
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Going for Gusto in Athens
December 6, 2010 – 3:54 pm
My choice for in-flight reading material was so pregnant with obviousness that I expected ridicule from my fellow passengers. Was I actually boarding an airbus for Athens with a copy of Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek in my bag? Well, I hear that Greeks embody the joy-of-life thing as well as anyone, and Zorba is viewed [...]
Museums & Open Mic – Katrina Bello – London Summer 2010
June 30, 2010 – 10:00 am
Katrina Bello, Summer 2010 London Program intern, writes about museums and open mics. More from Katrina here. “Yesterday I had the day off from work, so I went to the British Museum. The building itself, beautiful architecture and HUGE! Highlights of the trip were seeing the actual Rosetta Stone, the Egyptian mummies (including cleopatra’s mummy! [...]
Miseducation – Katrina Bello – London Program
June 25, 2010 – 8:39 am
Katrina Bello, Summer 2010 London Program, shares some thoughts from the first day of her internship… “Started my new internship yesterday. So far so good. I work at a small indie label with a rather entertaining name. They focus on electro, hip-hop, dub step music and have a lot of DJs signed to their label. [...]
Semester in Athens: getting acclimated
January 25, 2010 – 2:53 pm
The start of a new semester abroad is such an exciting time, and I was so fortunate as to be with yet another fantastic group of Berklee students embarking on their study abroad program last week. One evening, after a mouthwatering traditional “taverna” dinner, complete with the tenderest lamb and hearty quantities of tzatziki (a dip of [...]