I got my internship!

SCHILTIGHEIM, FRANCE One of the main reasons I came to Strasbourg was the possibility of landing an internship with the Council of Europe. I interviewed for it last Friday, and today I found out that I got it! So, starting sometime soon, I’ll be working (for free) in the Council of Europe’s office of the [...]

Je suis arrivé!

SCHILTIGHEIM, FRANCE FYI: When I write something extremely long and boring like this, I really don’t expect anyone to read it all. I really do it mostly for myself. Now that that’s been said, I have a lot to update y’all on, so I’ll start recently and work backwards, non-linearly. Salut, je suis Gary At [...]

99.9% Sure (I’ve never been here before)

STRASBOURG, FRANCE Yesterday evening I arrived safely in Strasbourg and things are unimaginably good. I’m a little pressed for time at the moment, but I’ll write a big long update (with pictures) over the weekend. The updates I wrote while traveling are below and I’ll have more up by Monday or Tuesday, at the latest. [...]

It’s Thursday; it must be Belgium

BRUGGE, BELGIUM For three days, I couldn’t believe I was in France. Now, I can’t believe I’m in Belgium. This morning, we took our bus from our ho(s)tel in Paris to Mons, Belgium, for a meeting with two local politicians. That was the first boring thing we’ve done. In fact, my highlight of the afternoon [...]

Greetings from the Future!

PARIS, FRANCE I was a little worried the night before I left. I had to sleep in the Hide-A-Bed with Fuller, and if he has too much to drink, he wets the bed. Then, a tree fell on a power line and my family left for the airport without me. Wait. No. That was the [...]

Gary Butterworth and a Semester Abroad

MARLTON, NJ, USA Well, my bags are packed/I’m ready to go….I’m leaving on a jet plane/and I don’t know when I’ll be back again. Air France flight #7 leaves JFK-NYC for CDG-Paris at around 8pm. If you wake up tomorrow morning and there’s no breaking news on CNN about a plane crash, you’ll know that [...]

Let’s keep this one short

BLACKWOOD, NJ Sorry about that long update about my trip to NYC. It seems like these updates keep getting longer and longer. I’m sorry about that, and I’ll try to keep this one short. If you want to read something long and boring, you can read “So I’m going to France…,” which I just posted. [...]

So I’m going to France

http://web.syr.edu/~grbutter/personal/france.html

So I slept in the bus station & A Holiday Message

MARLTON, NJ If you were wondering where I was on Monday/Tuesday (I doubt you were, but in case you were), I was in New York City getting my French student visa. It was quite the ordeal. I actually had thought about not posting the whole thing because I really wanted to post a holiday message, [...]

As if they weren’t already…

SYRACUSE, NY Now things start moving at light speed!  :-/ I got back into my dorm room here in Syracuse just before 6pm tonight.  The bus got in an hour and a half late.  Damn bus.  I wonder why I still take the damn things.  It used to be that I loved to hate them.  [...]