When I envisioned my time in college I thought about football games and all-nighters but the words study abroad never came to mind. However, that all changed my sophomore year when I learned about the Joseph S. Bruno Auburn Abroad in Italy program through the College of Human Sciences. Suddenly the idea of Italian food…
My whole life I had fantasized about Spain. I had read Hemingway’s romanticization of bullfighters, listened to the passionate rhythm of flamenco music, and seen the masterpieces of Picasso and Goya. I knew Spain would be an interesting place to study abroad, however the image and ideas I had of it before my semester there…
After studying abroad in Australia, choosing a second program to go on was very exciting. I looked up programs in Africa and South America. I decided to do something different. I found a program in Antarctica and decided it would be great to study the wildlife there. Unfortunately, the program ended up not being able…
“Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder?” Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run; you better take cover.” Have these ever-so-famous 80s lyrics ever piqued your curiosity as to what is really going on in the land “down under?” Just what in the world…
I left for South Korea a little nervous but extremely excited. Though I had a bit of a rough start by getting lost in the bus system of Seoul in which a 10 minute bus ride ended up taking over an hour, several people were more than happy to help me find my way. I…
I had always thought studying abroad was for art majors who wanted to go to Italy, or language majors who wanted to go to … well, Italy. However, after a friend of mine returned from Jordan unscathed and loaded with stories that put any of my Friday-night-in-Auburn memories to shame, I decided to look into…
While visiting Auburn during my senior year of high school, I can recall my sister, Katie, calling and informing me that during my sophomore year of college we would be traveling together to Dublin, Ireland to study abroad for a semester. With the thought of this, I excitedly agreed, but didn’t actually see it panning…
Over the span of my time in college, I have never learned so much as when I studied abroad last fall in the Amazon. The course I did wasn’t the typical study abroad semester, however. It was an NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) course. The trip consisted of us camping in the back jungles of…