Week 7 For my Passover in Israel, I spent the evening with a good family friend, Mali, who lives on a Kibbutz near Afula. Kibbutzim in the 21stcentury are far from what they were at the dawn of Jewish settlement […]
Katharine Glennon studied abroad in Bilbao, Spain in Spring 2018. During her semester abroad she lived with a host family. We spoke with Katharine about why she chose to study …
Welcome to Stellies After 29 hours of travel, I was greeted in Cape Town by a friendly face holding a Stellenbosch sign. We piled into a yellow van and South African …
Heather O'Brien studied abroad for a yearlong term in Brighton, England. We spoke with Heather about why she chose to study in Brighton, what fears she had about being abroad …
Week 6 On Saturday, my friend Farid, who is part of a Druze community in Haifa, took me to a campground to barbeque with his friends. Before we left, we stopped …
Dear Cy-Anne, This decision is BIG… so big that it seems scary thinking about it. But those nerves and doubts mean you’re officially out of your comfort zone and on the …
Carly Richardson studied abroad for a yearlong term in Nagasaki, Japan. We spoke with Carly about why she chose Nagasaki, her experience in Japan, and the benefits of studying abroad …
During the fall semester, Chiang Mai USACers have the opportunity to go on a trip of a lifetime to the Phrae and Nan Province nestled in the beautiful mountains of Thailand. Not …
Week 5 My newest revelation: there exists – maybe – 20 sets of spare shoelaces in all of Haifa, and FAR fewer spare pan lids…! Over the past few months, the shoelaces …
Week 4 This weekend, my friends and I took a bus (several buses, in fact) down to Tel Aviv to celebrate Purim in Israel’s most “lit” city. Bisecting Israel’s Mediterranean coast, …