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Making Friends Abroad: How These Students Found Beaucoup Besties in France

Worried about making friends abroad? Our Correspondents in France have been posting plenty of reassurances for any of your friend-finding woes.

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October 7, 2021
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Future-Focused Friday: Things That Reminded Us That It's Not All Burnt Turkey

This Thanksgiving we're thankful for the time this year gave us to reflect on what's important, be grateful for travel and the many cultures that make up our world, and to find a renewed sense of wanderlust and passion for study abroad. We can’t wait to help you see the world, hopefully someday soon. In the meantime, check out some of these Thanksgiving-inspired pieces from across the web and give yourself a little global escape today.

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November 20, 2020
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Future-Focused Friday: Things That Reminded Us That Kindness Makes Us Stronger

It's World Kindness Day! 💕 The last few weeks have felt stressful, right? There has been a lot of divisiveness and hatred around us, so now is a better time than ever to practice kindness and healing while staying true to ourselves.

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November 13, 2020
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Future-Focused Friday: As If We Needed More Spooky Things In Our Lives These Days!

Look, we don't know who needs to hear this, but it's more than okay to make Halloween pretty darn awesome this year. 🎃👹🍬 As far as we're concerned, this is the year to go big and go home. So let's trade in the goosebumps and nightmares for all the fun stuff...

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October 30, 2020

Future-Focused Friday: Things That Reminded Us That Nothing's Im-pasta-ble

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!

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October 23, 2020

“I dedicate this to my country, to the Latinx community…and to every single student who dreams of going abroad,” Hernando Sevilla-Garcia wins NAFSA Diversity Award

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October 21, 2020
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2020 Film Festival Grand Prize Winner Discovers The Beauty of Friendship Through Food

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).

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October 16, 2020
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Future-Focused Friday: The Only Way We Want to See Study Abroad 👀

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 🎉.

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October 9, 2020

It’s Time to Vote for the 2020 Study Abroad Film Festival Winner

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.

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October 5, 2020

Future-Focused Friday: When The First Day of Fall Proves That Time Is In Fact Passing By

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!).

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September 25, 2020

Future Focused Friday: 📘Things We Read to Travel Through the Pages This Week

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?

Post by IES Abroad
September 18, 2020

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