Category Stories: Alumni Reflections
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Heron Island: A Digital Story
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/PWohdx21m2U?feature=oembed Lori W. | Vanderbilt University | University of Queensland聽Partnership in Australia | 2012
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Australia: A Digital Story
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/15w5U1Mo1_0?feature=oembed Jessica N. | Villanova University |聽Flinders University聽| 2012
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709 to Surfers Paradise
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I walk downstairs at eight in the morning, barefoot and yawning. The village is lacking any human activity, but the air was filled with sounds of screeching cockatoos, lorikeets, and a lone, laughing kookaburra. I awkwardly long board through campus car parks, my surfboard strapped over my shoulder, which blows me astray. I鈥檓 trying to…
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Outdoor Education: A Digital Story
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXaiheBAaZ4?feature=oembed Hannah S. | Middlebury College | University of Sydney Partnership聽in Australia | 2013
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Internationally Inclined
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When students return from overseas, it鈥檚 quite common to hear them use the phrase, 鈥渟tudy abroad changed my life.鈥 While I loved the five months I spent in the heart of Sydney, Australia, I would be more likely to say that study abroad shaped my life. Studying overseas not only provided me with international friendships and personal…
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Katie’s Story: A Digital Story
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/p1bN67BfldY?feature=oembed Katharine C. | Duke University | James Cook University Partnership, Cairns in Australia | 2012
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This is Not a Vacation
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The moment I touched down in Sydney I was overcome with emotion. To this day I struggle to describe how exactly I felt while I was there. The closest that I can get is that I felt utterly and undeniably like I had somehow returned home. This place, this bustling metropolitan city, 10,000 miles away…
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Australia Makes Me Feel Beautiful
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The other day I rediscovered a journal entry I had written on one particularly happy day in Australia, when I had sat down and thought about how my life was different on this continent than it was back home. I questioned why I was so much happier and stress free in a strange country halfway…
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Igniting Chemistry in Cardiff: A Digital Story
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/RCekgo0VI1E Laura L. | Drake University | Cardiff University Partnership in Wales | 2013
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A Life-Changing Experience: A Digital Story
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Making a big life change is pretty scary. But, you know what鈥檚 even scarier? Regret. This February I left behind the familiarity of my friends, family, university, and home for a five-month study abroad experience in the heart of Sydney, Australia. I took the risk of adventure. I was living in an unfamiliar city in…
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