2021

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 the people I was with and able to meet.

 

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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 cliff. I realized I was holding myself back to have fun and gage new experiences. Now it is my most measurable example of how much I changed throughout 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, I learned more about myself and the hope for a future of easily accessible public transportation in the United States. In these next five minutes, I give you a good idea of what it was like for me. Enjoy!

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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 part in and because of that, I got more out of my trip than I would have had I simply sat back and complained about the situation I was in.

 

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