We’re feeling saucy this week. You know, marinara, carbonara, puttanesca, pesto. When we realized Sunday is #WorldPastaDay, we just couldn’t help ourselves (or wait to help ourselves to a steaming bowl of noods)! 🍝 So get ready for this week’s Future-Focused Friday—a day all about looking ahead—with a plateful of pasta-inspired blogs, articles, videos and more to fill your plate!
IES Abroad rolled out the virtual red carpet for the Film Festival hosted on YouTube Live. It was announced that the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Study Abroad Film Festival was If I Could Put Into Words by Kiubon Kokko, a Senior at Claremont McKenna College who studied abroad with IES Abroad in Nantes, France (Spring 2019).
We're feeling extra proud this week because our Film Festival started, and as always, these student films dove right into the heart of what makes study abroad so totally, absolutely, undeniably amazing! 🎬While we wait for travel to safely resume, let these films from Tokyo, London, and Nantes blow you away with the sights you'll see ⛩, the friends you'll make 🧑🤝👧, and the fun you'll have abroad 🎉.
This year we received an incredible variety of films that made us laugh out loud, cry, view cities in a new way, and want to keep watching over and over again.
With this Tuesday marking the first day of fall, we've been embracing the changing of the seasons. We're hoping the turn of a new 🍁 will help us find answers to those random curiosities we all have, like why some people call it "fall" and others call it "autumn" or why Americans are obsessed with pumpkins (don't even try to deny it!).
During this pandemic, many of us have turned to books for an escape from the current reality or to take a deep look into our current reality. Whichever your choice, why not add a dash of study abroad inspiration?
IES Abroad students use their talents, interests, and voices every day to shape their world abroad—but even if you haven't gone abroad yet (your time is coming!) we still encourage you to use your voice 💬 from your dining room table, your college dorm, or wherever you are—and participate in the 2020 United States Presidential Election! 🗳️
This week we’ve been completely reenergized about study abroad by diving into some of the best of the best of the (last one, promise) best of our study abroad goodness.
What’s study abroad goodness, you ask? Well, it’s some of our best content that has made us laugh, cry, reflect, and, you guessed it, reenergize!
Whether it's inspiring student blog posts about being comfortable with who you are while abroad, watching some hidden gem videos that reveal the true beauty of the people and the landscapes of our world, casually browsing some of our favorite study abroad photos, or being reminded by our 2020 Correspondent of the Year that you can make the most of anything if you put your mind to it, it's everything we need right now to get our groove back 🕺.
Wondering what the best destinations are for your major? Or maybe how study abroad even works? It's not a silly question, we promise. We've got these answers and more, all in an info session that's shorter than an episode of The Office.
Though it might not seem like the best time for…a lot of things TBH, this temporary limbo can actually be the perfect moment to plan ahead for what truly matters to you in the upcoming week, month, year, two years, all the way to infinity and beyond!
