Amherst College Global Education Blog
Hi everyone! My name is Maddie, and I’m a first-semester junior from Oakland, California currently studying Spanish. This spring, I’m going to be studying abroad in Ecuador with the USFQ Galápagos Semester Program. I’m so excited to be embarking on this journey and to have the opportunity to learn more about our environment/how we can work to protect it! Thanks
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“Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails” – George Carlin (American actor). Vasula melones is a small species of marine whelk (carnivorous snail) that resides along the coasts of México, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and the Galápagos Islands.1 It can be found in and around the intertidal zone of these regions, where the waves crash
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“Anybody who’s been to Ecuador wants to go back because it’s beautiful out there” – Michael Steger (American actor). Unlike Amherst which ended its winter break in early February, my program in Ecuador began in early January, meaning I had just two weeks in between the end of my studies in Spain and when I would have to depart for
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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
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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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¡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 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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By Margaret Werner and Rebecca Novick We’ve all heard the arguments supporting the choice to study abroad: cultural immersion, personal growth, meeting new people, learning a language, travel, becoming more independent, challenging yourself, the list goes on. But what happens when you actually arrive in your host community? What is it like living abroad? How can you do so while
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Hi everyone, Thanks for tuning in for my last blog post! Although I’ve been at home for the past month instead of in Copenhagen, I have been continuing with my abroad courses online, including Danish (which has definitely been much less useful outside of Denmark). It has been an adjustment being back at home and living through this unprecedented pandemic.
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Hello everyone! I’m back with another final blog post about my experiences this semester and how they’ve related to my research for the GEO. I hope you are all safe, well, and coping. Thanks for clicking, and happy reading!- AJ x My junior year abroad has been among the best of my life, but it hasn’t always been an easy
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