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Hi friends, we’re back for blog #3. This time I’ll be writing about coming back to the U.S. and readjusting to the culture to see if I might be able to prepare you for what you might experience returning to your home country. I will also cover some brief thoughts on the GEO exchange experience.…

Hey everybody, Abraham here back with another blog. I want to continue some of my thoughts from the last blog, as I spent most of it introducing myself. Specifically, I want to write about my relationship with Catholicism and religion. After, I will offer some thoughts on race and ethnicity in…

Hi everybody, my name is Jacob Abraham Munoz and I’m happy to be writing for you as a Diverse Duck Ambassador! Before I get into my experience in Mexico in contrast to my expectations of the trip, I’d like to give a little bit of info on myself so that you can know what kind of perspective I’m…

Coming home from such large experiences always trigger a period of required rest for me. I tend to return and collapse into a minimum of a week of recuperation, sometimes longer. This adjustment period is a mix of many things: recovery from burnout, culture shift, and just the sheer need to process…

Image   Image My study abroad experience in Querétaro, México, was an incredible and humbling experience. There was so much to learn and love, with, at times, an overwhelming number of…

Image   Image I have been back in the U.S. for five days after traveling Europe for seven weeks. Before my program ended and my additional travel began, one of our teachers briefed us on…

Image Hello my fellow travelers, my name is Joshua Amath Castellanos Ramos. I am a first-generation nontraditional UO senior who thought the best way to end my undergraduate journey was to study abroad! Let’s go Class of 2023!…

Image As of this writing, I have now been in the country of Jordan for a month, and find myself surrounded by truly incredible people and fellow students. I live in a building made of tan stones, up the street from a mosque whose call to prayer…

Image In general, my time abroad has been wonderful. I was so nervous going on this program as I had never been to Europe and been away from my family for that long. I did not have many expectations going into the program as I wanted to be open…

Image Hello, my name is Sarah Shewaye and I identify as a proud first generation American. My father was born and raised in rural Ethiopia and emigrated to Oregon when he was 18. My mother is ethnically half Russian and half Ukrainian and was…