The worldwide Augustana College experience
I don’t know how begin the ending of my trip. Essentially, this was amazing. I went to Vienna from Nov. 2-6th and London from the 7-11th. Vienna is gorgeous. I will live there someday, I feel. The viennese are well known for their kindness, but kindness is an understatement. The simplest of things show you [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Robert Self
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Last weekend I went to Przeworsk where my family lives. Przeworsk is a small town to the east of poland, just outside of Ukraine. It takes about 3 hours to get there by train but the trip is well worth it. All I did was eat and talk polish! They really know how to treat [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by matthew-peters
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My closing recommendations for anyone considering studying abroad (particularly to develop his/her foreign language ability):
1) Do it.
2) Stay with a host family if you can and learn everything that you can from them.
3) Travel alone or with someone you know will make the trip better. Anyone else can take away from the experience.
4) Don’t be apprehensive about speaking to people (specifically in Germany. They will help you).
5) Be open-minded, try everything, and revel in the idea that you could not see/taste/do those things anywhere else.
Posted on November 10th, 2009 by sean-austin
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The hardest languages in the world must be Chinese, some african click tongue, and then Polish. But even if you know one of the first two languages, you’ll still have problems with polish. There are so many ways to say one thing. For instance, there are three ways to say “I am going.” and all [...]
Posted on November 5th, 2009 by matthew-peters
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Change is unavoidable. It can be good, it can be bad, it can be both. The key to change is whether you resist it or welcome it. I know I have welcomed changed on this trip, but how? I can do my best to answer now, but at this moment I don’t feel I can [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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We finally made it to Mexico, marking the last few weeks of our trip here in Latin America. I am already really excited to get home because I miss it and the people so much, but at the same time I am enjoying my time here, so I think I’m in a good situation. Another [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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By the beginning of October we’d been traveling around South America for over a month and so far everything had been vastly different from the United States. None of the major stores, products, restaurants, or fast food places have been spotted, except for the occasional McDonalds, Coca-cola, Doritos, and Oreos. Whenever we would see something [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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Wow. I was just on top of the world. Literally. It was so amazing that I am still a little awestruck. It’s so hard to describe something that you have to feel and experience for yourself to understand the magnitude of it, but I am going to try. One of the things I was looking [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by angela-baumgartner
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¡Hola from España! Classes officially ended last week…and now we´ve got free time to travel. So… Alex, Joe, and I thought it would be fun to go to yet another country where we don´t speak the language: SPAIN!
Posted on November 1st, 2009 by louie-bertenshaw
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