Europe
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This Maymester, I participated in the Spain: Food Production, Culture, and the Environment study. It was incredible, and I would highly recommend it! While we were there, a few major differences in culture that I had not expected stuck out to me. The first and perhaps most shocking thing to me was how carefree the…
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Last May, I had a layover in Amsterdam while traveling home from two weeks abroad in Greece with CAES. I can remember flying in and seeing lucious fields of grass and tulips from above. Amongst them were little sectors of homes that looked almost like gingerbread houses. With the landscape looking entirely different from that…
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Along my travels with the CAES “Flowers and Photography” study abroad maymester, we visited Paris, France. On our first full day in Paris, we ventured to two separate towns, the first was Versailles, home of Louis XIV, and the second was Giverny, home of impressionist artist Claude Monet. Versailles was just as I imagined, a…
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A nice shot from Keukenhof gardens, just outside Amsterdam in the Netherlands the day we arrived for our Flowers and Photography study abroad trip. I’m not going to lie, this day was a bit rough from around the noon mark onward, as most of us had departed Georgia in the afternoon only to arrive in…
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Pictures!!
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I’ve lived in the city of Pamplona, Spain for just over a month now. I feel like I’m pretty good at doing life here now, but that wasn’t always the case. I’m gonna tell a story of how I epically failed in my first few days here. It was just a trip to the grocery…
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My abroad experience is an internship with the viticulture department at the Universidad Publica de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. I’ve been here just over one month so far and I have just under a month to go. I thought it’d be fun to share what a typical work day for me looks like here in…
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On May 26th, my study abroad group and I traveled to Giverny, France to visit Claude Monet’s gardens and home. This was definitely my favorite part of the Flowers and Photography in Europe Maymester. Plants and art are two of my favorite things, so being able to see Monet’s gardens and home was all very…
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*Disclaimer: Blog from the perspective of a study abroad student, based on opinions and occurrences.