Arielle Loren

Coming home last Thursday (June 11) literally put me in a depression mode. I was broke, snatched from Europe due to faulty internship planning, no job, and in the middle of the suburbs in Jersey. However, my awesome boss from last summer, Yianni Garcia, had sent me a facebook message the same day I decided [...]

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It has been an interesting semester, hasn’t it? I began January by flying to Madrid to be in NYU in Madrid’s program, living in Spain’s capitol, and feeling for the second time what it’s like to be a study abroad American student in Europe. And then I returned and I saw my country swear in [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpmr8Shy_UA] I’ve always been the baby of my friends thanks to my Dad putting me in pre-school early. But even in college, I just always seem to drift toward the older crowd, not by much (the typical age gap between my friends and I is between 2-5 years) but just enough for me to sit [...]

After 469 pages, I had this somewhat epiphany that went something like “Arielle, remember when you used to blog about the random thoughts that popped into your head before you moved to Spain?” Admittedly, not having 24 hour internet access and having to pay a drink price at café just to use their wifi, has [...]

So I couldn’t have been  more excited about my brother Bryson and Asha coming to visit me in Spain. They had been planning this trip for months and I was soooo happy to see it come through. Other than my Aunt Candace popping through to London (and me meeting her there), I haven’t seen my [...]

Without a doubt, Sevilla is the place for artistry. Whether you are a writer, painter, sculptor, photographer, artisan, dancer or whatever, the inspiration is here for your craft and with nothing but pure natural happiness alive in the atmosphere; so many great things have been created. For one, the Feria festival had all types of [...]