The Morning Of
It is currently 7:34 AM as I write this blog post, which means I am less than T-4 hours until I am needed at the airport. My journey to Seville will officially begin when I board my first flight to Atlanta at 1:00 PM. The decision to study abroad for an entire semester was one that I never believed was in my cards. However, when I went to visit my sister in Florence, Italy, I knew immediately that my academic career deserved some...
Berlin with other Exchange Students
Over the Christmas break my Finnish roommate and I went to Berlin to celebrate New Years Eve with some Mexican, Russian, and German friends that we’ve met since being in Stuttgart this semester. We were amazed at how huge the city was and decided to explore the city just by walking around. We found the Brandenburg gate completely by accident, but sadly it was closed. After that we stumbled upon Germany’s capitol the...
My final undergraduate adventure: Tanzania!
If you had told me four years ago that I’d be spending my last undergraduate semester in Tanzania, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. I knew that I was going to do everything in my power to study abroad, but given that my minor is Spanish, I aspired to study in a Spanish-speaking country to improve my language skills. Thus, when the time came to pick a study abroad program, I decided to spend the second semester of my sophomore...
What type of traveller are you?
You learn a lot about yourself when you travel because you see how you react to new situations. One thing I learned about myself was the type of traveler I was. People have different interests and personalities and that effects how they like to travel. Booshie traveller- you are the type of person that likes pictures of those five star resorts you see online with the spas and infinity pools. Your eyes widen when you see a Ferrari and...
Semester At Sea
I had no expectations coming into this study abroad program because every time I saw it it seemed unreal or too good to be true. This program takes you to various countries all around the world literally all around the world. My particular trip was the Fall 2017 trip. I would not have been able to do it without University of Alabama amazing generosity and I am forever thankful. A break down of how it works is first you embark...
What the world has taught me?
The last four months I spent my time traveling all parts of the world with Semester at Sea from the Fjords of Norway, the schools in Ghana, and the buddhist temples of Myanmar. For starters I learned that we can learn something from every country or person on the earth especially if they do not meet our standards as “elite”. For the thirteen amazing countries I went to these are my favorite lessons they taught me. Norway...