The worldwide Augustana College experience
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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This week’s blog is about the weekend trip to Venice, Italy. Don’t worry, no earthquakes there.
We took an overnight train which was quite an adventure. We had 6 people in a sleeper car compartment that was about 5′ x 7′. There were 3 bunk beds on each side of the compartment with a little “walkway”. I [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Leslie Scheck
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My friend Colleen is lucky. Her mother Anita, who speaks German, just flew in to spend the Easter break with her. Colleen, Lauryn, and I took her mother to the restaurant that we ate on our first night here on the program. We loved the restaurant and we also loved the waiter. We were excited to [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by rayla-smith
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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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