Amherst College Global Education Blog
It’s hard to recap everything I learned about Spain and its sustainability practices in a single blog post. Condensing an entire semester’s worth of knowledge and research is immensely difficult, and I never know what information is most pertinent to the topic at hand. Given this small disclosure, please note that what I talk about is only a small fraction
Read moreHi everyone! For this blog, I spoke to my friend Narymane, a student at the French university Sorbonne Nouvelle, about her experiences and views on race and colonial relations in France. I was excited to talk to Narymane because most of what I learned in France about the political and social environment was from my professors, who were all GenXers.
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¡Hola a todes! ¡Bienvenido a vuelta a mi blog de sustanabilidad (translation: welcome back to my sustainability blog). I’ve now been in Spain for approximately 24 hours, and, my goodness, has it been a wild ride! I can’t remember the last time when I felt more overwhelmed—and I once moved across the country to live in a new city by
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Hi everyone! This blog post will talk about some of my first impressions of Paris, the largest and most surprising differences I noticed between Paris and the United States, and some of my personal experiences and feelings as I spent time abroad. As I settled into my classes at Hamilton in France and Sorbonne Nouvelle, I was stricken by
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Hi everyone! I’m Sophie, and I’m excited to share my experiences studying abroad with you as the semester progresses. I will be studying abroad in Paris with the Hamilton in France program, and taking classes with Hamilton and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. One aspect of the process that makes me nervous is that Paris schools don’t release their course offerings
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¡Hello everyone! ¡Bienvenido a Madrid! My name is Maddie, and I am so excited to spend the next semester with you all, learning about Spain and some of the environmental issues that are present there. However, before we dive into that, let me explain a little bit more about how I ended up here in the first place. Being a
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Hi everyone! My name is Sophie Goldsmith, and I am a biology and French double major from Atlanta, GA. This fall, I am studying abroad in Paris, France, with the Hamilton in France program at Hamilton College. As a French major, a big goal of mine is to improve my speaking fluency. I am excited that the Hamilton in France
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Hi everyone! My name is Maddie, and I’m a first-semester junior from Oakland, California currently studying Spanish. This fall, I’m going to be studying abroad in Madrid, Spain (and then Ecuador in the spring)! While in Europe, I’ll be participating in the Middlebury Language Exchange Program and living with a host family. Hopefully, this will enable me to finally progress
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Check out a PDF version of this project here. Check out an accessible text version of each chapter here.
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Interviewee: Emeline Montgomery Hometown: Vendenheim Occupation: Illustrator I interviewed my friend, Emeline, whom I met at my internship where I was a teaching assistant for a Korean class, and she was one of the students. We became friends, and I learned that her mother is Alsatian and her father is English. I interviewed her on Christmas Eve at her
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