RILEY: The Golden Weather
“Are we in Narnia?” I wondered aloud to myself as I gazed out into the turquoise waters of Cathedral Cove. “Actually, part of The Chronicles of Narnia was filmed here,” I heard a fellow study abroad...
View ArticleRiley: The Good Old Days
It was the last place I expected to find solace while I was living in Auckland. But as the waitress approached our table smiling politely and placed the laminated menus before us, I felt relief....
View ArticleRILEY: The City of Christchurch
The people of Christchurch, a renowned city on New Zealand’s South Island, commemorated a somber anniversary Sunday. Sunday marked the passage of four years since the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake, one of...
View ArticleRILEY: North and South
Before starting my freshman year at Boston University, I had to make the most immense move of my life: leaving a rural college town in the South, smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt, for a small,...
View ArticleRILEY: Interning Abroad
For college students, the word “intern” comes along with a host of connotations. The interns get the coffee. They answer the phone. They are assigned the menial tasks that tenured members of a company...
View ArticleRILEY: 100% Pure New Zealand
While I was gearing up for my study abroad experience back in the States, I was told again and again by friends and family what to expect. “New Zealand is to Australia as Canada is to the United...
View ArticleRILEY: Turning 21 Abroad
I have dreamed of walking through those glass doors since I was a freshman at BU — to see the superstore in all its glory from the inside and gaze across the shelves and shelves of glass bottles...
View ArticleRILEY: The Waitomo Glowworm Caves
The caves of Waitomo, an extensive network of 80 different caverns located under a small town on New Zealand’s North Island, were first explored in 1887 by a tribal chief of Maori peoples native to the...
View ArticleRILEY: A Weekend in Wellington
Atop a hill by the Wellington International Airport sits a sign for the city reminiscent of Hollywood’s iconic landmark, with enormous white block letters spelling out the name of the metropolis in a...
View ArticleRILEY: Saying Goodbye to Aotearoa
For the Māori people native to New Zealand, cultural practices and history of the land is riddled with fantastical myths. According to legend, the Polynesian demigod Maui is credited with the creation...
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