Tales from Abroad – Gabriela Passmore
April 27, 2018
Studying abroad has been the most difficult and rewarding experience of my life. I felt like I had to go abroad to get out of my comfort zone. I chose University College Dublin in Ireland as my study abroad location […]
Tales from Disney World – Hannah Deyo
April 20, 2018
Where do I even begin? How does someone describe the best time of their life, and that the time has only lasted two months with four still left to enjoy? These and many other questions constantly go through my mind […]
Tales from Abroad – Lauren Casey
April 13, 2018
Thirteen cities, 13 days, 37 soccer players, one gymnast, and an infinite amount of memories. This’s what my time studying abroad in France for J-term looked like big picture. The program was called “French Sport and Culture,” focusing primarily on […]
Tales from Abroad – Courtney Erickson
March 23, 2018
Our journey started with a 14 hour flight from Chicago to Beijing. We landed at night and since Beijing is home to almost 22 million people, it was still lively as ever. Peking duck is the most famous food throughout […]
Tales from Abroad – Ella Napton
March 16, 2018
A series of unfortunate events led me to the J-Term trip that went on to change my life forever. Last spring I signed up and committed to go on the J-Term trip to St. Maarten with the Education Department. Being […]
Tales from Abroad – Liz Geerdes
March 9, 2018
This past J-term, I joined 39 Gustavus students and three professors from the Physics department on the trip of a lifetime to New Zealand and Australia for five weeks. I learned so much about myself, traveling, and the way of […]
Tales from Abroad – Lily Winter
March 2, 2018
It is every college student’s dream to go abroad, but very rarely does it come to be that our deepest hopes ever come to fruition. As us eleven Gustie girls sat on our third rumbly bus of the day, weaving […]
Tales from Abroad – Sydney Hedberg
February 23, 2018
In January 2018, the Gustavus Wind Orchestra embarked on a sixteen-day life-changing tour to Sweden and Norway. Six concerts were performed on this tour, allowing the ensemble to share its music throughout the Swedish cities of Stockholm, Uppsala, Falun and […]
Tales from Abroad – Laura Isdahl
May 12, 2017
Last spring, instead of the flat prairie farmland of St. Peter, I was surrounded by mountains and a chilly ocean with swarms of penguins zooming by. I studied abroad in South Africa as part of a program called, “Multiculturalism and […]
Tales from Abroad – Jenna Hooper
April 21, 2017
I studied abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia in the Fall of 2015. One highlight? Babies in jars. If you cross the Dvortsoviy Bridge on Nevsky Prospekt and hang a left you’ll come across the Kuntskamera, Russia’s first anthropological museum. You […]