After many, many years of restrictions, travel to Cuba by Americans for tourism is finally happening again. Although getting there may be tricky, it isn’t impossible. The current easiest way is to fly into Cuba from another nearby country. My friends and I took...
Kia Ora-an informal Maori language greeting often used by New Zealanders to say “hello.” Prior to visiting Sydney, my friend and I went back and forth deciding whether to visit Melbourne, or to take advantage of being so close to New Zealand and take a...
Dear America, Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Brian Keith Oliver. I’m a 31 year old African American male residing in Baltimore, Maryland. I grew up in a middle class family who certainly had it good by society’s standards. I attended only the...
Visiting Australia; Sydney especially had always been a goal. I planned to someday go but never exactly planned a specific time. Imagine my surprise when one of my friends mentioned that their job would be possibly sending them to take a position in “Oz”...
Brian: a male name of Irish and Breton origin. It is possibly derived from an old Celtic word meaning “high” or “noble”. Ever since my friends and I began to participate in local St. Patrick’s Day/Weekend celebrations at home, the idea of...
