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  • I’m sitting here in my room with my bags packed and only 24 hours until I leave for Germany! For the next five months, I will be an exchange student at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, a diverse and modern city in southwest Germany. At the beginning of this school year I had no…

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  • 286. I have spent the majority of my life in the same 286 square miles. My parents, sister, and I lived on 13 acres of land, surrounded by forest, pastures, and chicken houses. I thought the community was large growing up, but compared to what I know now, it is considered a small community. I graduated…

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  •  An old fashioned coffee grinder [caption id="attachment_2214" align="alignnone" width="300"] The berries of a coffee tree. Ripe berries are red.[/caption]

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  • Adios America!

    The day is finally here, and I am going to Costa Rica! I found out that I was accepted into this program over the summer, which did not feel that long ago. Now fast forward five months and I am all packed and heading to the airport. Before I left Athens I was trying to…

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  • Hola Adventure

    [caption id="attachment_2188" align="alignnone" width="300"] Coffee Beans after different processes[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2189" align="alignnone" width="168"] The view from the campus lounge[/caption]

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  • Studying coffee

    One of the best parts of this program is the lab. We had two labs, coffee cupping and brewing. As a person who never learned anything about coffee. These two labs really taught me a lot. The coffee cupping taught us how to distinguish the fragrance, break and aroma of each kind of coffee, and…

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  • Pre-trip Jitters

    17 November 2016 6:30 p.m.: Athens, GA I am currently sitting in my apartment with my roommates. Leaving is finally sinking in! I finished packing in two hours, and I feel as though I haven’t had the time to really give much though to my upcoming adventure. I couldn’t be more ready to depart, but…

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  • 19 November 2016 7:36 a.m.: Hotel 1915 Breakfast was amazing! It started out with fresh fruit and blackberry juice. I, of course, ordered un cafe con leche and tried the tortilla española (see pic) which turned out to be this omelet with spinach, potatoes and tons of onions. Honestly, it was a huge meal. I’m…

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  • It has been a week since we came back from Costa Rica. After a whole week of exams and presentations, I eventually have time to look all the pictures and think about this wonderful experience. This Coffee tech program gave me the best Thanksgiving experience ever. We visited more than 5 coffee farms, talked to…

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  • Pura Vida.

    “Pura Vida.” You could probably hear this term every single day in Costa Rica. The direct translation could be “pure life”, “hello”, “all good” or “this is life”, but these two words have a far more profound meaning to the Costa Rica culture. It means that no matter what your current situation is, life for someone…

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