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Before I left for my trip in Ecuador I went through 3 phases. 1: Excitement 2: Nervousness and 3: A feeling of being ready. The first phase was sheer excitement. I had always wanted to study abroad, and I’ve never been to South America. I was so excited because I felt like this was the…
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Sooo on my way home I was up for a total of 28 hours. Yea that’s right 28. Way too many, if you were wondering. My flight was delayed, delayed again, and oh you guessed it, delayed a total 3 times. I was exhausted to say the least. Seeing my family again was the best.…
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So this language barrier thing, yes it is very real. And extremely difficult to deal with. No one actually addressed to me how difficult it was going to be to go to a foreign country where the only word I knew how to say was “Hello”. After about the second day I had a real…
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Before this trip I didn’t know what to expect at all. To be honest, I hadn’t really read the schedule I was just going to take the trip as it came. I was super excited for being out of the country, but very nervous about missing my family. My parents were nervous about some recent…
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My favorite day from this adventure, was visiting with an Amazonian community. We spent the morning hiking through the muddy amazon, in our rainboots, to reach a community an hour and a half later. Once there, we were taught how to make chocolate from start to finish, fed a fish lunch (which still had the…
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Part one of my internship in France this summer has concluded. I have spent the past five weeks working alongside these two gentlemen in the gardens at Château d’Acquigny, about one hour due northwest of Paris. It was quite the experience and I know that I will cherish the time that I spent here. Each…
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It was May 9, the day had finally come for me to leave for my study abroad program in France. I was so excited as this was my fist time out of the country. I had decided to fly to France alone because unlike the majority of people in my program, I live about four…
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I never thought I would miss refillable drinks with ice in them until I went to France. Now that I am back in the Unites States there are so many things which I took for granted. I was so ecstatic last Friday night when I landed in Atlanta at the thought of having Waffle House…
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Having spent three weeks staying in many different locations across Ecuador and in varying climates, I have realized an important aspect of any travel abroad experience is making sure you have packed appropriately. The professor provided us with an exhaustive packing list including helpful suggestions from previous students. One important thing that was left out was just how often…
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