AUSTRALIAN SLANG OF THE WEEK: "MCDONALD'S" (US) = "MACCAS" (AUS)

My name is Greg Hauser, and I will be a part of the IES European Union Summer 2015 (EUS) study abroad program.  I’m from Mooresville, NC (Race City USA), I attend North Carolina State University (home of the Wolfpack) in Raleigh, NC, where I study Materials Science and Engineering.  This is my first blog post of many, and I hope you decide to read along! 

Bonjour, Ciao, Hola…or just Hello!  My name is Hannah Abel, and welcome to my Summer 2015 Study Abroad blog.  I am a rising senior at the University of Miami in sunny Coral Gables, Florida majoring in Human and Social Development with minors in Education and Psychology and a dream of becoming a speech pathologist.  A far cry from the art and museum studies courses I will be taking in Paris, Rome and Madrid these next seven weeks but I am beyond excited to be spending my summer living and learning in three of the most cosmopolitan citi

Hello all, I'm Gretchen and this will be my first post in a series of a few (pretty much) once a week recaps of my life abroad in Beijing this summer! I'll be uploading pictures of scenery and people, giving written blurbs about the week, and posting some of my own art in order to give you all updates about what I'm up to halfway around the world.

How do you expect me to sum up four months of amazing life changing experiences in China in one blog post?

Earlier in the year my grandmother renewed her passport, and that made me smile and it made me think:

I am fortunate to have such an adventurous family and privileged to possess the motivation and means to travel, but most of all I am beyond lucky to have formidable, active, and powerfully unique mentors in my life.

A couple of days ago, I got extremely frustrated and wrote a list of all of the things that have been the hardest to adjust to about Ecuadorian culture. As I was writing the list, I realized two important things. One, there are things that I do not like about Ecuador but all of the amazing experiences and aspects that I love about life here totally outweigh the negatives.