agriculture
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After coming down with food poisoning the second day of our trip, I unfortunately was not able to join in 100% for our hike up Grey Mare’s Tail in Moffat, Scotland. Consequently, I joined a smaller group who travelled back into town to spend time at a local coffee shop. The roads back into town…
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Blair Castle is truly a masterpiece and was by far my hidden gem of the trip. It is an absolutely beautiful castle with a nine-acre garden, deer park, a ruined Kirk, and extensive wooded grove space. By this point in our trip, however, I was feeling very homesick. I was overwhelmed with the thought of…
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For most people, the phrase ‘educator’ or ‘teacher’ can seem quite daunting. When we think of topics like ‘school’ and ‘learning’, we tend to think of the traditional student and teacher in a classroom, with the teacher often being someone we see as ‘educated’ or holding some form of advanced degree resulting from time spent…
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I have been abroad four times in my life, twice while in high school – almost ten years ago! – and twice in the past two months. While packing for this fourth go-around, a study abroad to Scotland, I recalled the first time I traveled out of the country: I was headed to France to…
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Although we spent most of our time in Havana, we did travel to a small agricultural community about 6 hours away. We stayed with our host Tete and his family on their farm. When you think of agritourism in the United States, this is exactly what this was like. Tete built several houses for students…
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Here are a few of the last photos I took while we were in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. It was our last stop on the trip, and I have to admit I was kind of sad to be heading back to Montevideo to board our departing flight. During my time in Uruguay, I had seen…
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I took a few pictures of the airport in Miami, where our connecting flight to Montevideo, Uruguay was boarding. I remember looking out the window at the airplanes and thinking how I couldn’t believe that I was going to Uruguay! I had never been outside the U.S. and was excited to travel to South America.…
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When I arrived in Montevideo I had no idea what to expect. I had never been outside the United States before, and all I knew of Uruguay was general facts I had learned before the trip. Montevideo was an amazing city that was full of interesting Uruguayan culture and heritage. The hotel where we stayed,…
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It was exciting to come home to sweet tea and chicken. While being back home has been great, I still miss parts of Uruguay. Leaving was hard, especially leaving all the great people that we met and grew close to over the week. I look back at the week that I had, and remember how…
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As I look back at the wonderful week we spent in Uruguay, I realize just how much we truly were able to experience and learn from another culture. While we learned invaluable lessons about agriculture and production techniques at different beef, dairy and sheep operations, we also learned life lessons as well. Below is a…