Semester
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Just in case you were wondering Uruguay is a beautiful place! Seriously, if you’ve never looked into Uruguay, I encourage you to use whatever device you have in your hands right now and look at more pictures. But something that you may not be able to find in the thousands of pictures of Uruguay on Google,…
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Settling back into a normal routine that doesn’t involve carbonated water and electrical adapters has been the routine of the last few days since we got home. The laundry is still piled up and needing to be folded, the homework is still there, and the urge to go back is ever pressing. The flights home…
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It really is a shame that the study abroad to Uruguay had to come to an end. Going into the trip, I was amped up and really eager to get learn and see first hand another country’s agricultural production system. Whenever I hype something up before it happens, I am often let down because the…
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Bruno is the culmination of the perfect person. On our trip in Uruguay, he was our tour guide, host, mentor, comedian, and translator all wrapped into one person. Once our group had landed in Montevideo, Bruno greeted each one of us individually with a smile. I shook his hand and was about to tell him…
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Allow me to share with you a funny but potentially life threatening story about a girl named Jodie and a pigeon. Once we had landed in Montevideo, we were led to our hotel on a bus and checked in to our hotel rooms. Immediately after, we met in the lobby and proceeded to walk to…
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Do you remember those two years of foreign language we all took in high school? Neither did I when I first got to Uruguay, but slowly my two years of Spanish came back to me. I was by no means proficient but I could order my meals and that was important, even so that I…
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I had the most memorable experience ever. Scotland will change my life forever. During the week of service learning, I had the opportunity to meet people from all over Dumfries and discuss food insecurity issues. People are doing a great job in fighting these issues and it was great to put a little bit…
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We arrived in Dumfries two days ago and today is our first day of fighting food insecurity. It’s an incredible experience how great this country is. We are putting together the last details to conduct interviews with the people involved in fighting food insecurity issues here. I am falling in love with Scotland; excellent food,…