MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT We have hit the halfway point of our semester in Gaming, and we have just arrived back from our 10-day break. I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Lourdes, France for mission with 12 other…
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Update: Austria is still good. Here are some highlights from the past week. I took a train for the first time. At 9:00 a.m., the man sitting across from us pulled out a beer and a…
TONIANNE ZOTTOLI STAFF WRITER On Oct. 5, Franciscan hosted its annual Gaming Fest, which featured Austrian food, drinks, music and culture as experienced by students in the Austrian Study Abroad Program. The Finnegan Fieldhouse was transformed into a larger Austrian…
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST “I auditioned to become the Baltimore Oriole Bird, but God had other plans,” said one of the four finalists for this mascot position. “Obviously it wasn’t God’s fulfillment for me. It just didn’t fly.” Sports…
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Austria continues to exceed expectations. God gives so abundantly in his infinite goodness. There are the things that I looked forward to before I arrived, like the mountains and the gelato. And then there are the…
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Well, we have arrived. The Fall 2017 Austria kids. Prepare for an onslaught of steel cross pictures and creek-jumping stories. At this point, we have been to Melk, Durnstein, Salzburg and Vienna. By the time this…
DANIEL KIM AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT I begin to write by first expressing my heartfelt grief for the terrorist attacks in Paris and offering of prayer for France and its people. These past 10 days, I was on a pilgrimage to Rome…
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT I can’t believe how rapidly this semester is flying by! At the moment, we are all dispersed throughout the continent for our 10-day break. I myself am fortunate enough to be meeting my parents in…
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT Midterms week is upon us here at the Kartause. It’s actually kind of a crazy week —we’ve got midterms Monday through Thursday, and we leave on Thursday night for a seven-hour bus ride straight to…
BY MELISSA SOLANO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT We here in Austria are reeling from the crazy, activity-filled, 10-day Rome and Assisi trip. Given that you all on main campus are begrudgingly returning back to good old Steubenville from spring break, I think…
