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Last Sunday morning, my host brother and I set to Malioboro Street, or, in the Indonesian language, Jalan Malioboro, one of the main tourist attractions in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Although we had both been there too many times to count, it is a…

I knew coming in that France was hardly a country that agrees with Georgetown on the idea of Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam; that is to say, it is an overwhelmingly secular country, so much so that since the passage of the 1905 secularism law, this laïcité…

Now that I have been living in Florence for three full weeks, I wanted to reflect on the cultural differences that I have noticed so far. I left for Georgetown’s Villa le Balze from New York on August 31. Coming to Florence, I knew very little…