Amherst College Global Education Blog
Hi everyone! My name is Woohyun and I am an Education Studies major from Bergen County, NJ. I will be spending this semester in Salamanca, Spain studying psychology along with Spanish history and culture. I am thrilled to learn psychology through the Spanish cultural lens and immerse myself in the local community throughout my time abroad. As a GEO correspondent,
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¡Hola! My name is Jackeline Fernandes and I’m a senior majoring in English and Psychology at Amherst. I’m from Port Washington, New York—an often humid waterfront town out in the Long Island suburbs—which is one of the many reasons why I’m excited to spend this semester in dry Salamanca, Spain. In documenting my time in Spain with the IES
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In my second post, I introduced what it is I wish to explore during my time in Japan. It was split into roughly three categories– food, the tea ceremony, and traditional festivals. The initial research I conducted about these topics was accurate, but the real experiences were much more impactful. This fifth post will serve as a conclusion of my
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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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“I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now, I realize I am fighting for humanity” – Chico Mendes (Brazilian rubber tapper and activist). As a part of my program, I got the incredible privilege of visiting a portion of the Amazon Rainforest located on the eastern border of Ecuador during my second month of classes. When I
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Hej! I’m Haru (Harufumi Nakazawa), studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark for the semester. At Amherst I am a junior majoring in economics and sociology. I am also an international student from Tokyo, Japan enjoying my study-abroad ^2 experience right now! In Copenhagen, I am concentrating on my primary interest in migration studies, taking courses on international refugee law, the Scandinavian
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Hello, my name is Mia Griffin and I am a first-semester senior majoring in Economics from Loudoun, Virginia. This semester, I am studying at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. As I document my time abroad, I hope to highlight the rich culture that defines Ghana and also help dispel the oversimplification of African countries. Ghana
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Hi everyone! For this blog, I gathered a few photos and a video that I took while in France that show a little bit of my life in Paris. I hope you can get a sense of the intersection between daily life in France and politics from these photos. This photo was taken during an annual holiday in France in
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Some (but not all) of my favorite eats 🙂 Traditional Japanese breakfasts can be eaten at hotels and ryokans (traditional Japanese inns). There’s often natto (fermented soybeans), some kind of fish, rice, soup, and vegetables. Okonomiyaki & Yakisoba The leftmost and rightmost pictures are okonomiyaki and the center is yakisoba. Hiroshima and Osaka were the two most popular spots I ate
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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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