Part 1: Gas Station Camels: Some enterprising gas station owners in the West Bank region tether camels in the parking lots, as the animals formerly known as Ships of the Desert are now demoted to photo ops. For the equivalent of $5, you can mount one of these wretched flea-ridden creatures […]
Well, it turns out Juan Valdez, the world-famous mascot for Colombia coffee, was created by a Miami advertising agency in 1959 in what became a highly successful attempt to brand Colombian coffee. The folks in Miami could not differentiate between the individual Latin American countries, so they chose “Juan” as a generic first name. Ok on that, […]
A first hand account of studying abroad in Florence, Italy Anxious and excited are the two best possible words to describe how I felt before taking off on a three-week long study abroad adventure in Florence, Italy. I’ve never traveled out of the country before, let alone traveled on my own, and I didn’t know […]
