Story Location: Argentina
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IFSA Interview Series: Literature in Argentina
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“I spent most of my time outside of the classroom exploring the city as well as traveling to other provinces within the country. This served kind of as a cultural study — I got to see how all aspects of life came together in different settings like cafes, or malls or parks.” “I spent most…
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A Volunteer, Volunteering Abroad
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A Volunteer Abroad The University of Tennessee, home sweet home to me. We have been the Volunteers since the founding of the University back in 1794. Saturdays in the fall are flooded with orange and white, fans singing Rocky top, and yelling “Go Vols!” as our football team runs through the T. We hold many…
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How Working For An NGO In Argentina Strengthened My Spanish Language Abilities
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There are a lot of academic and professional stress factors that go into the big decisions around studying abroad. For me, I worried about how studying abroad would affect getting an internship. That fear got even worse when I realized going to my dream country, Argentina, where the semester lasts from March to July, would…
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Living My Goals in Argentina
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“My goal was music. How I realized that goal was by doing something I could have never imagined before. ” https://youtu.be/Bx7rBOwYCpw Julie Williams is a Public Policy major at Duke University and studied abroad with IFSA on it’s Argentine Universities Program in Buenos Aires, Argentina during 2018.
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Top Five Things to Forget When Studying Abroad in Latin America
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I compiled this list while studying abroad in Argentina for a semester, but many of these tips apply to other regions of Latin America as well. Here are some cultural differences for which you should prepare. In fact, just forget these things while studying in Latin America: 1. Forget about your concept of time. Whether…
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First Generation Abroad
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Is it Possible? It had always been a dream of mine to study abroad every since my older brother did so in Beijing. I was obviously stressed out about how I could possibly afford it. I searched my college’s financial assistance websites and applied for all the scholarships I could find. I also, applied for…
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How to Overcome the Mid-Semester Slump
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1. Admit that it’s okay to feel down. No one likes to admit it, but being abroad won’t feel like the best months of your life 100% of the time. The pressure to feel like you’re enjoying every moment makes it hard to take a step back and let yourself admit that sometimes you miss…
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How Immersing Myself in the Buenos Aires Theatre Scene Made My Abroad Experience Special
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Buenos Aires is a city overflowing with an abundance of cultural, political, and artistic expression. One of my absolute favorite things about Argentina’s capital is not only the enormous quantity of artists– performance artists, visual artists, musical artists, and more– who inhabit the city and make creation commonplace, but the sense of true appreciation for…
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Navigating My Identity as a White Woman Abroad
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Looking back on my expectations In the United States, one of the many privileges that I enjoy as a white female is the ability to blend in with the majority. When traveling, that’s not always the case. Because I have fair skin and blonde hair, in Argentina I have found that I’m often the object…
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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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