Amherst College Global Education Blog
¡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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I am writing this post in front of my window, back home in California. The sky is blue and the trees remain green whilst I’m reflecting back on the gray skies and bare branches of Oxford when I left a couple of days ago. It’s a very strange feeling to be back at home, in a climate and setting so
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Having read other students’ reflections as they prepare to close out their semesters abroad and make jubilant returns to Amherst, I have to say that I feel a bit jealous. As much fun as I have had in Michaelmas, it’s strange to think that I still have two more (exciting! incredible! inspiring!) terms at New College. My situation is a
Read moreInterviewee: Name: Sainbayar Erdenebulgan Home: From Mongolia, but grew up in northwest London College: New College Major: History I interviewed my friend Sainbayar on the ideas of personal “bubbles” in a chain coffee shop called Pret a Manger which is always packed with students and queues out the door. We met at a club I joined (OUAPS – Oxford University
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About a month after arriving in Strasbourg, I was invited to the home of an Alsatian family from the international church that I attend (Trinity International Church of Strasbourg). Myself and other students from the church were very well fed that day – the Alsatian way. Throughout the afternoon, we ate an unhealthy (though definitely delicious) amount of an Alsatian
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After a year of lock-down with my family, I looked forward to spending this year with people my own age. If I had been at Amherst, I would have been reunited with my friends in Val, Frost, or my dorm, but as a study abroad student, I knew that I would have to make all new friends. Luckily, three wonderful
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