The readjustment period for any study abroad student can be challenging, and this is especially true for this semester’s participants. We imagine you and your student are feeling a wide…
The readjustment period for any study abroad student can be challenging, and this is especially true for this semester’s participants. We imagine you and your student are feeling a wide…
When I embarked on my study abroad journey to Viña del Mar, Chile, I was 19 years old and a very inexperienced traveler. I had only left the country one…
6 weeks, 4 countries, 12 cities and numerous planes, trains, and automobiles later… I’m back home from across the pond! This experience sparked the wanderlust in me, let me tell…
I grew up in the town I was born in. I know the city like a song stuck in my head, all familiar and memorized. It’s repetitive every day: the…
There is no time to write in Paris. There are wrought-iron balconies, enormous pigeons, and lots and lots of dust, but there is no time to write. There is time…
We caught up with Kelsey Bridwell, an AIFS alum and one of our 2018-19 Alumni Ambassadors, who spent a semester in Budapest, Hungary! Here’s what she had to say about…
As I approach the end of my semester abroad, I’ve been reflecting on the entire experience and what I’m going to take away from it. Needless to say, there are…
My alarm goes off at 7:00 a.m. and I roll out of bed. The sound of cars whizzing by on the highway next to my homestay has become the regular…
As I fly over the Atlantic Ocean, hurtling towards the United States, it finally dawns on me that my semester abroad has come to an end. It didn’t hit me…