Berkley Center

Upon arriving in Spain, I took the Renfe train from Madrid to Salamanca, where I’m studying in the Universidad de Salamanca. The train itself was pretty reminiscent of a typical Amtrak coach. The train station reminded me of Boston’s South Station…

It has been seven weeks since my arrival, and I have yet to develop the language around how I identify myself. I have found that "Afro-Latina" does not flow so smoothly in Portuguese. I arrived to Brazil a week before the Olympic Games, but I decided…

It really did look like Mars. As I glanced all around me, the orange sand stretched as far as I could see, with large rock formations protruding out of the ground in seemingly random locations. Speeding through the desert on the back of a 4x4 pickup…