Another April

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!