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Best Affordable Weekend Trips from Lima
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Although staying in Lima, going to classes, getting to know the city, and spending time with your friends who live here can be super fun and important, you’ll probably also want to use your time here to explore other parts of Peru. Unfortunately, trips outside of Lima can often be expensive, time consuming, or logistically…
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Residential College: Your Home Away From Home
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Depending on the country you’re studying abroad in, the style of optional housing could range between living with a host family, living on your own in an apartment, or in my case, living at a “college” on campus. Note that in Australia they call dorms colleges, so I’m just living at one of the dorms at…
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How to Pursue Your Passion Abroad: A Tale Told from a Theatre Seat
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One of my main reasons for choosing London as my study abroad destination was its reputation for the theatre, and the arts. Theatre has been my passion, and something that has taken up a fair chunk of my life since middle school, but I have never seen so many shows in such a condensed amount…
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How My Host Mom and I Almost Moved
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Growing up, I moved with my parents twice across the country, and we often reflect on the moving experience as a stressful but exciting time. For the first two months of my semester abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a real estate agent weekly showed the apartment I shared with my host mother to potential buyers,…
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Academics Abroad: It’s Not Better It’s Just Different
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Nine hours of total class time throughout an entire week may seem like nothing in comparison to the American system where each class has roughly this amount each week. During my time abroad at the University of Edinburgh, I had exactly that. Nine hours of a class per week. On top of that, all of my…
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Don’t Forget Academics When Choosing a Study Abroad Program
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At Kenyon, it seems that most students study abroad primarily to immerse themselves in a different culture. Some do this to become more proficient in the language, others to explore hands-on the history or culture, and some simply want to get out of rural Ohio. And these are all fair and good reasons to study…
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How I Coped with Losing A Loved One While Abroad
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I will never forget my 21stbirthday, not because I was spending it on an incredible Spring Break Trip in Australia, although that certainly helps make it a bit more memorable. No, the reason I will never forget this birthday is because it was the day I found out my grandfather had passed away. When I…
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GAA and Me: Looking Into Social Connections Through the Use of Sport
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When thinking about Ireland, the most common preconceptions are rolling greens hills, creamy black Guinness, and soaring gray rainclouds. However, one of the defining features of my Irish experience was the Gaelic Athletic Association (or GAA) and its tradition of Irish pride and cultural identity. By participating in GAA at Trinity College Dublin, I was…
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Argentine Patagonia on a Student Budget
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I traveled around Argentine Patagonia in February, alone, before my Argentine Universities Program started and trust me, I know all the excuses not to go: “It’s too expensive,” “It’s too far from my program’s location,” “There’s not enough time to see everything.” But as someone who took the time to plan out a trip, I can assure…
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Dealing with Family Loss While Abroad
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Going abroad is exciting and wonderful but can also be a little intimidating. Leading up to my departure to Edinburgh, I had all those conflicting feelings. I had asked all the necessary questions to students who had studied in Scotland and I felt confident in my abilities and ecstatic for the opportunity to live in…