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From someone who has never flown out of the country before, you would probably think I would be freaking out to get back on the plane, but it was the direct opposite. I was eager to come back to the United States to tell my friends all about my amazing experience in Costa Rica, as…
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From someone who has never flown out of the country before, I am so excited to arrive in Costa Rica as soon as possible. Even though I will miss spending Thanksgiving with my family this year, I can’t wait to learn all about coffee production, buy Costa Rican coffee to bring back to my warm…
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With exactly one week until I’m off to Spain, I am becoming nostalgic of my everyday life here in Georgia. I am trying to spend as much time with family and friends as possible while enjoying the little things that I often overlook. I realize that everything will be different when I return to the…
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The trip home was an adventure in and of itself. The plane that was supposed to take us back to Atlanta from Quito, the capital of Ecuador, had to leave Atlanta first. Unfortunately, there were terrible storms in Atlanta, which caused it to be delayed. Consequently, this caused our flight to be delayed leaving Quito.…
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I am finally home from Uruguay, and I feel like I am going through another culture shock within my own country. My time there was only 8 weeks, but it was an amazing life experience. I will never forget its people and its beauty. I wasn’t sure how Uruguay has impacted me until I left.…
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My most favorite part of the entire trip was the visit to the Galapagos Islands. This was what I had been waiting for throughout the entire trip, honestly, because I had always dreamed of visiting, since I was a child. We flew into San Cristobal, where we stayed in a hotel with a beautiful view…
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As I sit here in the international terminal of the Atlanta airport typing my last blog entry, I can’t look back without realizing how blessed and grateful I am for the opportunity of a lifetime. Without the gracious support of my scholarship donor, the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and my faculty professors, none…
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I can remember, like it was yesterday, my first college tour of UGA. They gave me several really interesting brochures of all the available options offered to CAES students for study abroad trips. Little did I know that three years later I would be given the opportunity to take advantage of this and immerse myself…
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Travel, as Mark Twain said, is ” fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” I think it’s absolutely true: if you were to ask people at the international terminal of an airport about their views…
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This summer has been a monumental experience for me and I know that it will be something that I always remember. I have been given the opportunity to participate in a UGA Faculty led study abroad trip through the UGA Arts and Gardens tour and I was then able to complete a Horticultural Internship through…