Seated on top of a hill in the village of Mochudi, the Deborah Retief Memorial Hospital looks more like a hotel out of Mamma Mia!, featuring several yellow buildings scattered at the top of the …
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Mokolodi Nature Reserve
Before heading to the Mokolodi Nature Reserve I was very excited. As an animal lover, it was really special to me to get the opportunity to see animals like Giraffes, Zebras and even Ostriches which …
UW Gateway Botswana 2019 Participants
Nzinga Acosta is a rising sophomore at UW-Madison studying Fashion Design with certificates in Entrepreneurship, Business, and African Studies. She has been hand-sewing clothing since she was young and wants to enter a career in …
Bella, Act 2
Note: What follows is a work of fiction. While the characters in the story- including I, Pier, the narrator- are inspired by real life, their existence remains limited to the confines of the author’s imagination. …
Typical Day in Korea
(Tuesday/Thursday schedule) 7:30- I wake up and get ready for the day. I get ready quietly because I have a roommate from Japan who likes to sleep in. We get along pretty well; she recently …
A lifetime in four months
As you’ve probably guessed from the title, this is my four-month-anniversary-and-one-week-left-in-Aix sentimental post. Although I’m sure I’ll have better and deeper reflections on my experience here once I’m back in my regular life in America, …
A Day in the Life
A Typical Weekday for me: Around 7:30 a.m.: Wake up and get ready for my day. 8:45 a.m.: Arrive to my first class of the day. Most of my classes that I have are a …
Flamenco_An Andalusian Art
One of the highlights of my study abroad experience has been participating in an interest group about Flamenco through CIEE. Contrary to popular belief, Flamenco is not native to all of Spain, but rather the …
What to do When You Get Sick on Study Abroad
One element of study abroad is that things don’t always go as planned. For two weeks, one of which was Spring Break, I was struck down by the flu, tonsillitis, and a killer migraine. Although …
Austria: Three cities in Three days
Austria is by far the most underrated country I have ever been to. I do not know anyone studying abroad there, so we went in blind. The person I went with and I both knew …