Before we came to Madrid this fall semester, we spent two weeks in Santiago de Compostela, a small city in Galicia, in the northwest of Spain. During these two weeks, I was able to connect with the other students in my program, ease my way in to speaking fully Spanish, and learn so much more …
As a classmate and I were discussing our final reactions to Odede/Posner, one thing that we were both wondering about was where SHOFCO is today. Through some quick internet research, we were able to answer this question. There is one video of a SHOFCO student walking through Kibera, and the effect of the crisp, colorful …
As I was reading Talya Zemach-Bersin’s “Selling the World,” I thought that there were a lot of unfair criticisms of study abroad. I agree with the fact that it often has colonial undertones, and that many students use a foreign place and foreign people as an exciting backdrop for their own personal discovery and gain. …
I’m planning on studying abroad in Spain through the Madrid program. Ever since high school I have wanted to study abroad in a Spanish-speaking country, so my main decision for study abroad is about if I want to go to Europe or Latin America. The reason I’ve decided on Spain is that many of my …
I had a really great experience in my breakout room with the students from the Catholic University of Salta. Our prompt was to talk about a time you either felt very connected, or very disconnected from your nation. The two UCaSal students, Antonieta and Pia, shared the same story—when Argentina won the World Cup in …
Growing up, everybody in my house, except for my mom, only spoke English. My mom spoke Bangla as well, since both of her parents did when she grew up, but there wasn’t anyone she could talk to in Bangla in our house. In middle school, we were told to choose if we wanted to learn …
“Crossing Borders, a 70 minute documentary by Crossing Borders Films, follows four Moroccan and four American university students as they travel together through Morocco and, in the process of discovering The Other, discover themselves.” Crossing Borders Education One cultural difference that I found really interesting in the movie was how the Moroccan students communicated and argued with each other. They …
COIL–Collaborative Online International Learning I am really grateful to have had the opportunity to speak with students at the American University in Cairo. During the initial meeting, it was a little difficult to have a conversation in our breakout rooms because we didn’t have much time after everyone shared their background. However, two students from …
