A large part of my experience in Spain, and arguably the best, was staying with my host family. I along with three other girls stayed in an apartment (or “flat” as they are referred to in Europe) near the center of Granada with a woman named Nadir. She lived with…
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Becoming the first person in my family to attend college was an incredible accomplishment for me in 2015. Amongst the stress of learning about credit hours and dining plans, I never considered the possibility of studying abroad. This May, I conquered another “first” and became the first person in my…
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Nestled in a valley approximately a mile from the coast of southern Spain sits a produce farm where you can find the best fruit you will ever eat. As we traveled up the winding road to the farm, my study abroad group talked about our excitement to try the fresh…
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Spain was a major culture shock from the first time I set foot on the foreign soil. One of the first things that I noticed when we arrived to Spain was the insane amount of olive trees that covered the landscape from the airport to Granada. It went on for…
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Over the course of three weeks, I travelled to Italy, France, and all around the United Kingdom. And I loved all of the places I got to visit. Each city and country had so many things that were unique and amazing. But, overwhelmingly, my favorite place I visited was Edinburgh,…
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For anyone who is scared to study abroad, I was just like you. I knew that studying abroad was going to push me out of my comfort zone, and I wasn’t sure I was prepared for how far out of that zone I would go. It was daunting and exciting…
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Before going to Spain. I had never been out of the country. I had barely even been out of Georgia. If you can imagine the fear I had built up to the night before leaving. I had researched almost every day and spoken to others to gain as much insight…
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My major piece of advice for someone who is traveling abroad for the first time is this: go without any expectations of any kind. I went with the hopes of recreating the trips of friends and family. I went thinking that I would hate Paris. I went thinking that I…
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For my summer semester I got to spend 2 weeks in a beautiful tropical jungle in Costa Rica. It went very well for nearly the entire first two days. We were staying in a little room with no air conditioning that was open to any bugs that wanted to come…
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With my Spring semester finished at the University of Georgia, I had just one week before I would be departing to attend the UGA Avian Biology Maymester program in Costa Rica. This program would be my first study abroad experience therefore; I had no clue what to expect. I was…
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