Welcome to the final blog post of the school year!
My last blog post a good number of page views from
Europe. I assume this is from me
mentioning my upcoming Austria study abroad trip, so I’ll name drop a few more
European cities/countries to get a wider audience. Maybe they’ll be interested in the MPA
program, and I’ll be responsible for them joining.
So, I had orientation at WKU a couple weekends ago for the
Bregenz-Austria trip. I learned I’ll
have to take really, really, really short showers which is impossible for me so
that’ll be new. Apparently water is
crazy expensive over there. The group
will be taking trips to Munich, Germany and Vienna so I’m super pumped for both
of those. Bregenz is also on Lake
Constance and I guess we can just hop into it wherever and swim around. There’s also very little crime there so I’ll
feel much safer walking around than I have in other cities. It’s going to be a great time and I’ll be
sure to write a blog post about it, pictures and all, when I get back to make
everyone jealous.
Work and school here in the MPA program have gone really
well recently. Dr. Olberding is
finishing up the first draft of her book, so hopefully that’ll be available for
everyone in the near-ish future. Dr.
Lambert has had a couple provisionally accepted for academic journals (one of
them I’m a co-author). Dr. Misis will be presenting some research at
a conference at NKU in the fall (which I also co-authored). This
week I have two presentations for class and next week are finals, both of which
are online/take-home thankfully. After
next week’s finals I have about two weeks of R&R before heading out on my
great European adventure!!!
The Aronoff in April had “Beauty and the Beast” and “The
Book of Mormon.” Both were great, but
completely different. “Beauty and the
Beast” had lots of kids in attendance, and a couple little girls had on their
best Belle dress. “The Book of Mormon”
had a more adult crowd. Hilarious show,
but hardly for anyone below high school age.
Up next is the classic “Cabaret,” and it’s the final show of this Broadway
season so no more big musicals until September.
The Cincinnati Opera will be at the Aronoff this summer due to
renovations at Music Hall so hopefully I’ll get to work an opera show or two
(it’ll be my first time seeing a legit opera performance).
I think that’s about all for this month. Like I said, I’ll write something up over the
summer about my summer trip.
Thanks again for reading!
