Before leaving for Scotland, I felt adequately prepared thanks to our professors. They had warned many many times about the temperatures. When they said cold I thought it can’t be that bad. Upon arriving I quickly knew what they meant when they said cold. It was cold cold. I spent…
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Since my Sophomore year of high school, I have wanted to be an agriculture teacher. I have never strayed myself from that path since then. I have often doubter my abilities and wondered if I could do it. Before entering the Scotland classroom to teach I was thrown a curveball…
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Before entering the program, I already had many friends going on the trip. I had fully planned on spending my time with those people. Upon our arrival in London, I began to talk to two girls who were different majors than the rest of us on the trip. We decided…
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While in Scotland, I couldn’t help but think about the grandeur of history. The main part of the trip was teaching at Troqueer Primary, however, there were several days where we were able to tour. History has forever been one of my favorite subjects to learn about, and this trip…
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While this picture is a bit blurry because it was taken on a four hour bus ride, it was one of the most important observations from the trip. Going to Scotland I had images of rolling hills and sheep but not much else. I didn’t realize that the country was…
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Before leaving for Scotland, I had only had one other experience in Europe. This previous experience was 4 years ago, and similar to the trip we had this spring break, was 10 days in length. Because of this, my expectations for the trip varied from other students that I knew…
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Dumfries, Scotland is the small town that we taught our lessons in. Each day, we walked from our hotel to Troqueer Primary School bundled up just enough that as soon as we stepped foot in the school, we started sweating. Our first day in Dumfries we spent inside the school…
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I’m sorry, what? I know I wasn’t the only one thinking it, but holy cow! He wants us to pack 10 days worth of outfits into a hiking bag? That was the first anxiety and fear that hit me when I was sitting in our Scotland class talking about the…
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The past eight days have been nothing short of amazing! We started out the week by getting to see the capital city, Montevideo, for a few days. We saw open air food markets, beautiful sandy beaches, and different historical monuments. We then hit the road to start farm tours. Our…
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Once I came back to the United States, I realized how much fun I had and it hit that I could finally say that I’ve traveled. As I reflect on my time overseas, I realized that I took away two main things. First, meals are social times whether it be…
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