Archive | Issue 5: 2019

I participated in the UW English Department’s Summer in London program in Summer 2018.   I wrote this poem while on the white cliffs in a little, pocket-sized journal that I had brought around with me while on my trip. Recollecting all of the details was incredibly easy to do with the scenery right in […]

The following prose and photographs serve as a mediation of my time in Amsterdam. It is my hope that they convey changes in perspective and clarity of thought amid disruption. My reflections here are loosely inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, which presents an illustration of how patterns of humanness create and shape what we […]

Out of what seems like an incomprehensible mass of experience, we begin to make sense of the world by connecting points of reference, big and small. viewpoints by Mira Petrillo Cementerio a un lado del mar by Ivanna de Anda Dover by Victor Hugo Mendevil Approaching Our Unknowns, Together by Emily Gresham Beamer Saint’s Tribute by Kendall Upton finding wabi sabi by Emma Hohenstein […]

When I stepped foot in Amsterdam, I didn’t know what to expect. It was my first time being in Europe without family members. I was super excited to study abroad, but my excitement turned into disappointment when I realized a lot of the rhetoric of racism that happens in America—specifically in Seattle—was still apparent abroad. […]

At noon on August 17th, 2018, I stood in front of the Icelandair check-in counter at SeaTac. “And your final destination is Copenhagen, correct?” the lady there asked me. “It sure is,” I replied. I couldn’t believe what I was saying. The only place outside the U.S. I had ever been to was Vancouver, BC. […]

In Autumn 2018, I studied abroad in Prague with CHID. I chose to do this particular study abroad because I wanted a program that valued how to consciously enter foreign spaces. The CHID Prague program seemed to have exactly what I was looking for in that regard. We were taught by Czech-based professors, met with […]

Dedicated to and with help from the writers studying abroad in Rome, Autumn 2018 From the relinquished pavilions & moth-eaten stone To the cigarette cemeteries Between the street cobbles Rome knows how to make us remember Our own mortality With its museum rooms of epigraphy And rows of sarcophagi That are decorated With their own […]

Chiaroscuro is an Italian word that means “light-dark.” In art, it is a technique that uses extreme contrasts between light and dark to create a dramatic, evocative, three-dimensional composition. It was a popular technique among 18th and 19th century Spanish painters. I walked through the famous Prado museum in Madrid where I saw the work […]

Last August, I spent my entire summer researching what to expect while studying abroad so that I would be fully prepared for whatever turmoil might come my way. So many of the blogs I read warned me about culture shock, and I felt prepared to navigate difference in a new country. I felt excited and […]

Like a mix of horns during a traffic jam, jarring experiences abroad can clash with prior understandings and leave one feeling overwhelmed. Zwarte Suede Shoes by Emily Hengstler Chiaroscuro by Mikaela Bartyzel Corporeal by Kendall Upton Impulsiveness by Annie Dahl Iceland Air by Bridget Wittke Invisibility Abroad by Iman Mustafa CHID Study AbroadThe UW Program in the Comparative History of Ideas […]