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Burning Snowman

A very exciting cultural experience I got to enjoy was the snowman burning in Zurich. This festival is called Sechselauten. In this festival, there is a lot of excitement in the city, food stands, parades, and most significantly a giant snowman. This event was a public holiday in Switzerland, so…
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Two Programs & One Lost Backpack

Morocco was not the only study abroad I was able to participate in this summer. I also had the opportunity to do the Scotland: Youth Engagement in Agriculture. The Morocco study abroad program ran from May 14 to 28, and the Scotland program ran from June 4 to the 18….
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St. Gallen, Fondue, Farewell

March 6th For our trip this weekend, my friends and I arranged a day excursion to St. Gallen, a town in eastern Switzerland that is famous for its medieval monastic abbey library, Baroque-style churches, and textile museum. We spent our morning exploring the St. Gallen Abbey cathedral, which boasted breathtaking…
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Konstanz, Luzern, Classes Begin

February 15th This weekend I took my first weekend trip with my friends to the nearby city of Konstanz that is right on the German border with Switzerland. The first thing I would recommend to any student studying in Switzerland who is planning any kind of travel by train is…
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Arrival in Switzerland!

January 31st My name is Vivian Yang and I am currently a senior studying food science at UGA! After a fall semester of hard work that went into preparing to study abroad, I am so excited to finally begin my time in Zurich and I look forward to sharing some…
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Dietary Restrictions? No Problem Here

For the last few years, I have struggled to go out to eat or even shop in grocery stores, for while I have always been vegetarian, I made the leap to vegan a couple of years ago.  Luckily, the United States is known for variety, and many more vegan options…
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Meeting new people

Before leaving for Scotland, I knew five people out of 15 students going on our trip from the UGA. I knew none of the University of Glasgow students. I was about to spent a lot of time with the rest of the University of Georgia students and I was going…
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