My First Thanksgiving in Poughkeepsie A uniquely American holiday, Callum Ashley’s experience of Thanksgiving offers an insightful peak into a world of tofu turkey, sugar and an American-sized portion of thanks Vassar College, New York, United States – It’s a frosty Thursday morning and the usual bustle of coffee-grasping students are gone, so only a […]
Travel, tests and tears: getting home for Christmas from New York
Travel, Tests & Tears: Getting Home from New York for Christmas Callum Ashley covers his journey back from the Big Apple but things arent quite as straightforward as they might appear… Four days before Christmas, I was standing in JFK airport looking like a fool, dressed in two jumpers with my jacket tied around my […]
A Very American Halloween: Exactly What You’d Expect
A Very American Halloween: Exactly What You’d Expect Peel back the cobwebs and get your skeletons out of the cupboard as Callum Ashley covers his experiences of a particularly ghoulish American Halloween. It was when I went to grab a quick breakfast from the Deece (the student-named dining hall), that I suddenly remembered, and felt […]