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blog Returning Home: It's Just a 'See Ya Later' They also say that home is wherever “I’m with you.” But if home is where heart is, then my heart is scattered across the world: a little town off the Ocoee River, the smoky hills of east Tennessee, the north Georgia mountains and the capital of the happiest country in the world.
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blog Celebrating Holidays Abroad Until my semester abroad, I hadn't celebrated any serious holidays away from my family and friends...and then Easter rolled around. Easter in Finland is celebrated a bit more widely than at my home university. The whole week leading up to Easter Sunday, the University of Jyvaskyla
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blog About Me: The Journey I took to Self-discovery This blog post is all about the self journey or self discover that you go through when you’re six months abroad on the other side of the world and also just finished a book on self-understanding so bear with me.
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blog What I Didn't Expect When Coming to the U.S. To tell the truth, I had a very precise idea of what my American college would be. I thought that what I’ve seen in movies, series and books was the exact depiction of my soon-to-be experience.
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blog 5 Tips for Academic Success in Ghana After finishing all my Interim Assessments (the U.S. equivalent of midterms), I realized that I wished someone would have given me proper provisions on how to be successful in a different academic environment.
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blog Subconsciously Learning a New Language American exchange students have these stereotypes, actually mostly good from what I've encountered, about them that they carry around. One stereotype is that every weekend, they visit somewhere new. This is true for me, at least it has been for the last month.
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blog 3 Ways to Experience Your Host Country’s Culture One of the best things you can do while abroad is experience the local culture of the city and country you’re living in. Each country has its own unique culture and it’s not just fun, but also important to experience that and see how people from other countries live their day-to-day life.
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blog Dos and Don’ts of Solo Travel While Studying Abroad If you asked me when I was six if I could see myself going abroad, the answer would’ve been no. Actually, I wouldn’t have answered at all, I would’ve run away. Ask anyone who knows me and they will say that I used to be the shyest person ever.
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