For the past 3 months I've been living in a small town in Eastern Austria. Located in the foothills of the Alps, Gaming has been our "home base" for the semester. Why Gaming? In 1983 Franciscan University bought an old Carthusian Monastery that had fallen into disrepair located in Gaming, Austria and in 1991 started … Continue reading An Ode to Gaming →

I've been waiting a while to type up this post because I'm afraid recounting all the memories we made over ten day would make me sad, but I want everyone to be able to know about the amazing trip we had together. I want to remember it and look back on it fondly, so without … Continue reading Ten Day →

Ok so maybe my Ode to Gaming will have to wait till the end of the semester. The days here get away from you so easily, traveling 3 and a half days and doing school work the other 3 and a half. It's a lot to balance. One side of studying abroad that not many … Continue reading Athens →

Another apology for my delayed post. Things here are starting to get busy with midterms still trickling down and preparations for next week which is only a 3 day class week. Two weekends ago, the weekend after Berlin, I stayed back because it was only a two day weekend. I was able to do a … Continue reading Poland Pilgrimage →

Yep, It's already time for another blog post. I feel like I'm becoming quite the world traveller, every weekend it's somewhere new, but that's what a semester abroad is about right? This three day weekend was a Saturday, Sunday, Monday weekend so a little different from previous ones. When looking for somehwere to go the … Continue reading Berlin →

We arrived back to the Kartause late last night from our 10-day pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi with the school. All I have to say is praise Jesus for reading days because you know if we had class today everyone would be skipping it to recover. It's been the hunger games for washers and dryers … Continue reading Rome and Assisi Pilgrimage →

I'll start this off with an apology for my tardiness. I got back to campus Sunday evening and school just like decided to be a thing this week and what a freaking beast it was. But nonetheless, I've also been anxiously waiting for a break to be able to sit down and finally write about … Continue reading London →

This past weekend we had another school-sponsored trip, this time it was an overnight trip (our first one) to Vienna, the capital city of Austria. We all had flown into Vienna when we first arrived in Austria, and my friends and I even spent a night there before we met up with the school the … Continue reading Vienna Weekend →

I'm starting to see how it can get so easy to get behind on these posts and trying to document all the moments while here overseas. With classes finally starting last Thursday and travel weekends quickly approaching, we're all finally starting to really get into the swing of things and find our routine. It's crazy … Continue reading Salzburg →

Well, we've arrived in Gaming to about two feet of snow and of course the beautiful Kartause. I'm gonna be honest, when we rolled up to the school my first thought was "this is not like in the pictures". You see, all the pretty pictures posted by the school in the springtime from just the … Continue reading Melk Excursion →