My name is Leslie Scheck, and I am a junior at Augustana. I am a psychology major with a biology minor. My hometown is Yorkville, Illinois. On campus, I am involved in CUBOM, Center for Vocational Reflection, and Active Minds. I have never been to Europe, so traveling to Vienna is going to be an amazing experience. Along with going to Austria, I will be making trips to Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, The Netherlands and Ireland. I hope to experience as many new activities that I possibly can!
Auschwitz
Our entire class spent the weekend in Poland. On our last day there we visited Auschwitz which was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp. This was one of the most emotional days of my life. As a student I have always read about the concentration camps and what the Nazis did to the Jewish [...]
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by Leslie Scheck
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Easter Break in Barcelona, Spain
 Easter Break was spent in Barcelona, Spain. Our trip to get there was quite an adventure. We had to take a train from Vienna to Bratislava, Slovakia. Then from the Bratislava Train Station we had to take a bus to the Bratislava Airport. We then took a Ryanair flight from Bratislava to Girona, Spain. Then we [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2009 by Leslie Scheck
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Venice
This week’s blog is about the weekend trip to Venice, Italy. Don’t worry, no earthquakes there.Â
Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Leslie Scheck
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Mendel Museum and Munich
This week was the week of traveling. On Thursday we travelled with the entire class to Brno, Czech Republic. It was another early day leaving our residence at 5:45 in the morning. The train ride was only around 2 hours which was really nice. When we first got there we went to the Gregory Mendel [...]
Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Leslie Scheck
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Budapest, Hungary
Guten Tag! Yesterday we took a day trip to Budapest Hungary. We left at the ungodly hour of 6:00 am to catch our 3 1/2 hour train to Budapest. We stayed in the compartments in the train like you always see in the movies. When looking outside, I often felt that I was looking at [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Leslie Scheck
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Rainy Days in Vienna
Guten Tag! Our first week of classes in Vienna have officially started. The weather has been rainy and windy everyday, claiming many umbrellas, including 2 of Kristen Classen’s in one day.  Along with the bad weather, our first week of doing laundry in the sink has started. The Viennese do not use dryers, and in [...]
Posted on March 15th, 2009 by Leslie Scheck
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First Impressions of Vienna
Hallo from Vienna!! We arrived in Vienna 3 days ago and have been staying at The Wombat Hostel on the southwestern side of the city. On the plane ride here we experienced a great deal of turbulence, making sleeping almost impossible. Therefore staying awake for the first day to avoid jet lag was quite a [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Leslie Scheck
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