Follow my adventures as I explore the world, one story at a time<3 

October 2025 Everyone has a city that they idealize in their heads. In my childhood bedroom, for reasons I couldn’t quite articulate, I had a retro poster of New York City on my wall. At that age, I didn’t know what the city truly entailed - I didn’t even know how to pronounce it properly - but I knew it pulled me in. I knew it represented something big, something bright, something I wanted to be part of. Naturally, on my Google Keep, I saved a note that said, “Open this in t

August 2025 As I geared up to return from my study abroad adventures in Milan, I had a summer in Washington D.C. waiting for me. Finding short-term housing in D.C. is notoriously difficult, but somehow, I stumbled upon the perfect intern housing in the heart of Capitol Hill - ready for a summer of finding my rhythm and making the city my own. I had one goal in mind - to make the neighborhood mine. Capitol Hill is an interesting place. On the surface, it’s the center of Americ

March 2024 For spring break sophomore year, a bunch of my friends and I found ourselves on a school-funded trip to San Francisco, California. Given the nature of the city, naturally, the trip was an entrepreneurship trip - and it was also my first time in California. I’d always heard that San Francisco was the place for big ideas, but what I didn’t realize was how those ideas seem to float in the air there - how creativity feels less like something people do and more like som

March 2025 What’s the first thing you think of when you think of Milan? Maybe the Duomo, the gelato, or - if you’re like most people - Milan being the fashion capital of the world. I’d heard plenty of tales about Milanese chic, but when Fashion Week rolled around from February 25 to March 3, 2025, and I happened to be living in the city - I knew I had to make Milan my runway. This, unlike most things in my life, was completely unplanned. Piri and I were hanging out when she c