Around the world in 70 days — this refrain describes Harmonie Kobanghe’s summer (SFS ’15) after winning the Raymond Dinsmore Fellowship from the Circumnavigators Foundation.
Kobanghe was awarded...
The best part of summer is that you can have extensive travel plans and experience two entirely different worlds within three months. After spending four weeks in Zanzibar, Tanzania, as a volunteer and...
In a few hours, I will be getting on a plane bound for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For six weeks, I will be living in Copacabana with a 76-year-old woman named Jô and taking classes at the Instituto Brasil-Estados...
When I boarded the plane from Seville to Palermo, I had two suitcases, 17 euros, the phone number of my host family in Marsala, Sicily, and a plan: take a bus from Palermo airport to Trapani (a coastal...
Some of you (by which I mean myself) may have noticed that I’ve been uncharacteristically silent on 4E these past few weeks. The reason: I’ve been in China! The time difference between “the Middle...
College tour guides have to answer dozens of questions. From “What does the blue light do?” to “Do coeds share bathrooms?”, the questions span from normal to bizarre. While many of the questions...
Congratulations, Hoyas, you made it through finals. If you are anything like us at 4E, you're probably already sitting on your couch and binging on Netflix with a plate of food the size of a dwarf planet....
I wish I didn’t have to leave. In fact, if I could stay another semester and still graduate on time, I would. I have had the most amazing experience in Chile. It was so much more than I ever expected...
In the television show “30 Rock,” there is a scene in which Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) has to get rid of her favorite sandwich before going through airport security, so she shoves it all in her mouth...
Elephants. Nelson Mandela. A drinking age of 18. These were the thoughts occupying my mind when I hopped off the plane in Cape Town, South Africa, in July, embarking on my semester at the University...
I should start with a disclaimer: My trip to Spain has been my first real trip outside the United States, and, for that matter, off of the Eastern Seaboard. Despite an orientation session, my expectations...
Before coming to study in Lyon, France, I didn’t exactly have a realistic vision of how my abroad experience would turn out. I found that reality sometimes varies greatly from expectations, especially...
