An Overnight Flight and a Smooth Arrival I officially made it to Rio de Janeiro! After my trip to Alabama to visit family before flying here, my mom and a family friend dropped me off at the Atlanta airport. I flew directly from Atlanta to Rio overnight. My flight wasn’t until 11:40 p.m., and I got dropped off around 8:00, so I had plenty of time to read and mentally prepare for everything ahead of me. Also, remember how I’m injured and have two walking boots!? Well...I still have them. BUT,...

Wow, what an absolutely amazing semester! Somehow, every semester of IBEA just keeps getting better. If you had asked me last fall which semester I thought would be my favorite, I would have told you there was no way anything could beat the U.S. semester. I got to live at home with my family, spend time with my friends from USC, and be surrounded by all of my international friends. It truly felt like the best of all worlds. But after spending this semester in Singapore, I take that back. I...

One of the most insane things I did this semester was complete not one, but two crazy challenges. I walked around Singapore in three days and biked around Singapore in one night. Here's the story. The Singapore Walk Before I even stepped foot in Singapore, one of the guys in my cohort challenged me to complete a three-day walk around Singapore. One of his friends had studied abroad there previously, created the challenge, and even made a YouTube video about it. Ever since then, my friend and...