Winter Break 2025 Participant
Study abroad is a great opportunity to travel to parts of the world I never would have expected to be able to go to! You learn so much about yourself and learn how to navigate new and unfamiliar places! My advice would be to not hesitate and make the most out of your abroad experience by taking every opportunity that may come your way! You never know how great of an adventure it may turn out to be.
Winter Break 2024 Participant
One afternoon, we removed invasive species from a community walk path. It was so important for us to give back, and it was an awesome way to help out.
Winter Break 2024 Participant
One thing I learned is that just going exploring and getting to know your surroundings is the best thing you can do, as well as to be careful but not worry so much about getting a little lost or turned around. One of the best things my group did was start walking around and trying to orient ourselves with where we are, as well as practice taking the metro to familiar locations so that when we have free days we would be comfortable taking it longer distances. Doing this at the beginning of our trip helped things to go a lot smoother since we took the time to walk around and even though we risked getting a little lost, by a couple days in we we able to have a good general idea of where we are and what's around us. This really helped when we had to find certain buildings for classes or certain meeting spots for getting back together as a group. It was also a really beneficial thing to do since by the time our free day came, we made plans to take an hour bus ride to the beach and since we had experience going on the bus for shorter distances, we knew how to properly navigate which busses to take to get to the beach which likely saved us a lot of trouble.
