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Mr. President

Today I saw the President of Georgia. Wow, right? Him, his wife, the boyfriend, myself and a few dozen other people enjoyed the Tbilisi Orchestra conducted by Mariano Rivas. At the beginning of the performance, Mariano Rivas did a little speech, beginning with an attention to us the spectators and Mr. President. Everyone started looking around the small theater. “Is he really here?” It would make sense for him to be there since entering the theater there was quite the security check. I looked around as well, but I didn’t see anything. The performance...

What I learned from Madame Bovary.

I really thought I had read the novel before. I remember having to read it in one of my European Studies classes in University – I guess I missed that assignment! Although I was positive I had read it, I could not for the sake of me remember what it was about. Therefore, I decided to read it again – or rather, as it so happened, for the first time. After the first few pages I realized that it couldn’t have been that I read this, since nothing seemed familiar. I have a bad memory – but not that bad. After all the great things I have heard about the...

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The Comfort of Home

Traveling is great, really. I’ve always enjoyed it immensely. However, up until now, I never realized just how nice it is to come home. Perhaps something has changed in me, or maybe I just feel like I’m finally at home. I’ve been gone for months at a time before. I’ve traveled for over a month all over Europe, slept in many beds, lived in Europe for a few months, gone to Romania for entire summers, so it’s really not the first time that I’ve been gone from home for over a month traveling to different places. Yet, whenever I used to...