The OWU English Department Blog
Where and when did you study abroad?
I studied abroad during the Spring semester of my sophomore year to Madrid, Spain.
Why did you decide to study abroad?
Studying abroad was one of the main reasons that I came to OWU. When I heard about the OWU Connection I was hooked on the school.…
The time when I read Giovanni’s Room, an extraordinary novella by the even more extraordinary James Baldwin, could have been the worst possible moment – but, surprisingly, it might have turned out to be the best. I was living through my very first real winter – all the previous eighteen had been a collection of only slightly chillier and less rainy summer days, as every winter is in Rio de Janeiro.…
An aluminum vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air–this is what the word plane used to mean to me. I thought about them when one flew above me in the blue summer sky, a tiny greyish shape that inevitably leads anyone with a fertile imagination to indulge in a thousand theories about who the strangers in the sky are, where are they coming from and where they are going, and why it is I will never meet them.…
I did not come to Ohio Wesleyan to major in English. In fact, I was staunchly opposed to majoring in the discipline. For years, I was told that I would certainly be an English major because of my love for literature. I was determined to not live up to such an expectation.…