Teaching language to enhance travel, and traveling to explore language!
I’ve made an interesting observation recently regarding the ability for museums to act like “quest boards” that you might see in a video game. Let me explain a bit. In a lot of open-ended games, and in tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons (both of which I play a lot), it’s common to find quest…
Last June, I spent a day in Caracol, Belize, during a break from my work at a field school. It was a 3-week trip altogether, but we got to take special trips on the weekends out to places like this. Caracol was the first of several excursions we took at the field school, and it…
I’ve talked a few times about how it’s easy to find new experiences around you when you know where to look. So, while looking for blog post topics, my mom suggested vising the Post Falls History museum, which is only about a 10-minute drive, but which we’ve never visited. Unfortunately for us, we discovered that…
Sure, adventure is fun, but it’s not always easy to find good opportunities to try something new. I wrote a post several months ago about finding adventure where you live. I still agree with the points I made there, but I want to expand on them a bit in a new post. See, today I…
You might have heard of Inverness because of the show Outlander, where the town serves as one of the main settings. You also might know about it from the Battle of Culloden, where the Jacobite Rebellion fell to the British Government. This battle is also one of the central events of Outlander. You also might…
This week I thought I should talk about more of my recent travels. And since Dublin is a popular travel spot, I want to describe my time there. I’m going to do it in a similar format to my post about Scotland’s Stirling Castle! Day 1: Arrival in Dublin Our initial arrival in Dublin was…
Last week, I talked about the places I currently wish to visit the most. So I thought this week I should do the same thing, but in the opposite direction! I’m gonna talk about my favorite places that I’ve already been to, and why I liked them so much. Maybe it’ll inspire you to go…
I want to do something a little different this week. I’ve been talking a lot about language lately since it’s really easy to talk about when I’m not traveling. But I have plenty of places I’d love to visit, so I thought I’d talk about them! As an anthropologist, many of them (but not all!)…
What is adventure and wanderlust, really? I can tell you one thing: it’s not scrolling through Instagram and spending time in front of a screen. At least, not always. I’ve noticed something that tends to happen to me when I travel, and it revolves around the thing you’re reading this on: screens. Social media has…
When my family and I made our way from Glasgow to Inverness in Scotland, we decided to make what we thought would be a quick stop to check out a cool landmark. We didn’t expect Stirling Castle to be a full-day experience that we had to tear ourselves away from! (I’m writing this in more…