Alexis Arnold

Snap Judgements   My story is about navigating the profiling of me while traveling in Europe and making snap judgments about me. I will specifically talk about my time traveling in Estonia and going to the airport.

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Mackenzie Holub

A short story about how finding the best places to eat in Italy also taught me a lot about myself and traveling abroad.  

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Miles Caraballo

After exploring the ruins of Pompeii, 4 hungry Americans get some help from a local to find some lunch!  

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Ryan Zaslaw

Planes, delays, and a bus to Munich How a group of 18-year-olds overcame a fiasco in Germany and walked away with new knowledge and a great story to tell.

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Clay Buxton

Study Abroad Stories: Journey through the Whitsundays In the audio clip, I tell the story of how several friends I made while studying abroad and I traveled to the Whitsundays on the east coast of Australia right before Covid-19 started to impact the world. I describe the beauty of the islands where we traveled and about …

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Chloe Krulak

My friends jumped, I followed. One night my friends told me they were going cliff jumping at the crack of dawn the next morning and it took me a minute and I decided I would join them. Before this, I disliked the ocean and would not have trusted myself to jump into it from a …

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Connor Roope

This is the story about the time my mom and sister came to visit me in Seville and met my host family, a defining moment of my study abroad experience.

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Abby Kachris

My friends and I took on Ireland the only way we knew how, which was by train. Public transportation became a huge part of my life while abroad, which was surprising to me considering I had never been on a train system in my life prior my time in Ireland. Throughout my many train rides, …

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Jacob Neuman

My time in the Dominican was  amazing. However, I had to deal with a lot of health issues that truly tested my resiliency and my ability to push through difficult times. I wanted to make sure that despite what I was going through, I did not miss out on anything that my peers were taking …

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Sam Moreland

In this story, I reflect on some hard-hitting topics that I experienced in Perth, Western Australia. These stories are hard to hear and harder to tell, but they come with knowledge that can be used throughout the globe. The purpose of telling these stories is for us to reflect on the ethnocentrism in the United States.

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