I studied abroad at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and would recommend this program for students who want to get out of their comfort zone and explore the entirety of Switzerland.
On Saturday, Oct. 16, hundreds of Tulane students, including members of Global Guides and the Krewe Du Monde Buddy Program, volunteered at locations across New Orleans for Outreach Tulane, a campus-wide day of service and the oldest and largest community service event at Tulane.
I arrived in Milan anxious and excited about spending my spring semester abroad. I never would have imagined that after a month of getting a taste of the abroad experience I would be sent back to the U.S. due to a global pandemic.
The idea of letting go of all familiarity can definitely be frightening, but I would argue that it has completely shaped my experience abroad.
On my first day of class in Rouen, I assumed that the biggest struggle I would face would be waking up in time for my 8:30 a.m. class. I was feeling pretty confident when leaving my apartment at 7:45. This is the story of how I was very wrong, and how my phone tricked me into a mile-long sunrise hike
To become a true bogotano, you have to familiarize yourself with the famed bus system, el TransMilenio.
n my last post, I mentioned that I would probably be stumbling through Spanish conversation for a few weeks. Well, I’m proud to announce that after living here for three months — I’m absolutely still stumbling.
Just recently, the four Tulanians studying abroad in Colombia went on a weekend excursion to el desierto de la Tatacoa. Located about 175 miles Southwest of Bogotá, this arid natural wonder is not actually a desert in the traditional sense but rather what remains of a tropical rain forest that gradually dried up to become a desert.
Towards the end of my 10 months abroad, I made a list of things I had done for the first time. Some of the items were travel related — camped in the desert, swam in the Pacific Ocean, hiked in the Andes Mountains — while others were more related to personal growth — took academic subjects in Spanish, made friends from all over the world and went five months without seeing my family.
I knew from even before I started college, I wanted to incorporate international contexts and experiences to whatever I wanted to study. In a time when people and cultures all over the world are so interconnected, having experience outside the U.S. is vital. By the time my second semester of […]