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With just days to go, I have been thinking a lot about what I have learned during my time abroad. Don’t worry Mom and Dad, I have learned a LOT…

When I was a young girl, I lived with my parents, two younger sisters and for a few years, our paternal grandparents, Jido and Teta. My dad and his family…

If you’re planning on studying abroad in Europe, chances are you’re going to want to travel the continent and take weekend trips as often as you can. This was something…

The weeks here in Salamanca are flying by and in one short month, I will be back home. While I am ecstatic to return and see my family, I have…

My biggest fear before I left to study abroad was that I would be alone and not make friends. I didn’t want to be lonely and bored by myself and…

Intercambio: A language exchange between two people. Each a native speaker of a different language. This definition of an intercambio to me is correct, but it does not cover all…

If there was one word that could encompass every aspect of studying abroad, it would be “new.” New places, new people, new experiences – nothing is old or familiar. For…

In the weeks leading up to my study abroad experience, I couldn’t wait to finally board a plane and head overseas. I’d watched countless videos and read numerous blogs on…

Before I left for my semester abroad in Granada, Spain, I made a short list of uncompromising goals I wanted to achieve before returning home: become fluent in Spanish (more…

College can be scary. But, going to college in a different country… well, I don’t think there are words in the English or Spanish language for that one. And yet,…