Reflection
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I get extrememly anxious before traveling. What if I forget something? What if I get lost? What if I don’t understand anything that’s said to me? I’m so glad we had a trip orientation and checklist to help guide my thoughts and pre-trip planning. The timing of this trip couldn’t be any better and although…
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Four more days until I, along with 18 other people, board a plane for Costa Rica. To say I’m excited would be an understatement. I’ve been wanting to study abroad on this coffee trip for two years now. I can’t believe the trip is finally here! Along with excitement, I’m mostly just stressed. Choosing to…
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At this time tomorrow I will be in Costa Rica! It has been a long wait since I applied for the program several months ago, but the semester has flown by and departure is less than 24 hours away. Planning the final details of any international trip can be stressful, but thankfully CAES has done…
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The Cortona 2015 Viticulture and Enology Study Abroad program ended on June 2nd. Time in Cortona flew very fast. I wanted to stay one more week to taste more wines and visit more wineries. I think I will miss everything I have done in Cortona. I will miss the sensory labs, eating delicious sandwiches in…
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Hello! My name is Sungwhan Park, and I am majoring in Food Science with a business emphasis as an international student at the University of Georgia. I am really excited to participate in the 2015 Cortona Italy Study Abroad program, especially the Viticulture and Enology program. The purpose of this trip is to study wine,…
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Italy was phenomenal and full of history; Paris was beautiful; London had so much to see. However, the city that surprised me the most, and turned out to be one of my favorites was Edinburgh, Scotland. Before arriving, I already imagined that Scotland wouldn’t have as much to offer me as the other countries did.…
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Bonjour! I am currently sitting at my laptop browsing through websites in a frantic attempt to learn French, trying to think of anything I may have forgotten to pack and intently watching An American in Paris (one of my favorite movies) for the 10th time today trying to observe everything I can about French culture-…
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It’s almost time to leave and there’s still so much to do! Rather than packing I have been pouring through travel books and making lists of all the places I want to see over the course of my exchange. It’s overwhelming to look at what I’ve written down and the number of incredible places I…
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This trip will be my first time leaving the country (excluding the times of crossing over the border into Canada as an infant). I am not so much as nervous about the actual flight than I am about how long we are supposed to be on the flight. 9 hours. Being a detail oriented person,…
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Beef: it’s what’s for dinner. And by that I mean every dinner. Coming from a place that is the top broiler producing state in the country, it was a big surprise seeing the amount of beef that the people of Uruguay consume each day. We learned our first day here that the cattle to human…