During the fall of 2018, I interned at the Global Village Project (GVP), a non-profit specialty middle school for refugee girls who have had limited or interrupted formal education before coming to the United States. The students are between the ages of 12 and 18, come from all corners of the globe, and together speak…
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Come Lime with Me: My Global Journey to Trinidad
One of the many unique experience that Agnes Scott College offers to students is the opportunity for every first year student to participate in a global learning journey. The purpose of this semester long course, which culminates in a week long excursion, is to explore the concept of a “global citizenship,” or expanding ones conception…
A Reflection on Studying Abroad in India
“So, how was India?” they ask me, smiling, unaware that their well-meaning small talk has just thrust me into an impossible position. Try as I might, I have yet to find a way to condense every breathtaking, and confounding moment of my five month study abroad semester at the University of Hyderabad into a thirty…