Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
This past summer I was given the unique opportunity of participating in the Duke in Flanders summer study abroad program. Under the guidance of Professor Hans J. Van Miegroet, we studied visual culture in the Greater Netherlands and its underlying historical and socioeconomic assumptions from the...
Credit: Anna Ruddle
Major: ICS
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
In the summer of 2009, I had to opportunity to participate in the Duke in Rome program! I had a wonderful experience. After the four weeks were over, I felt like I had really seen everything Rome had to offer, from ruins to churches to museums....
Credit: Kaitlyn Sanders
Major: Religion
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
In Spain, I knocked on the door of fluency, and was almost let in. I argued with Cervantes (he won). I attempted communication with grocers, street musicians, homeless people. I learned to crave gazpacho at every hour of the day. Traveling, it seems, is not just...
Credit: Rosa La Cerva
Major: ICS
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
From the moment I stepped off the bus in Oxford's Gloucester Green station, I knew that I was in for a fantastic experience. The town buzzed with life as tourists, shoppers and scholars snaked their way through the narrow streets and alleyways. I could feel the...
Credit: Bryan Gomez-Wong
Major: Political Science
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
This past summer I had an amazing time in Spain with the Duke in Spain program. Besides learning more about Spanish literature, art, and history in my classes that I took, I had an experience of a lifetime. While staying with a host family in Madrid,...
Credit: Shannon Beall
Major: Psychology and Spanish
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office,
This summer was one of the best summers in my life!
Living in Beijing was a series of adventures and surprises - mostly, I am glad that I had an opportunity to live in Beijing this year. I could tell that China is now at very...
Credit: Jasmine Kim
Major: Psychology and Public Policy Studies
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Bitte, how do you do laundry here?
Let's be honest. You can visit Berlin any time. When you do, you can probably visit the Altes Museum (which I am sitting in front of in this picture), wander around Potsdamer Platz, listen to a concert in the...
Credit: Jessica Nicholson
Major: Biology
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office,
Duke-in-Greece was an amazing, worldly experience. We spent the first three weeks traveling around the country by bus and ferry, stopping to visit many famous sites of the ancient world. The final week was spent on a large sailboat that cruised through the Aegean and docked...
Credit: Emily McClintock
Major: Public Policy
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Duke-in-Greece was an amazing experience. We took an Ancient Greek Philosophy course with Professor Michael Ferejohn while traveling the country and visiting some of the most notable ancient sites in Western history. We visited the site of the Oracle at Delphi and the Acropolis in Athens,...
Credit: Alexandra Villasante
Major: Philosophy
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Of all the memorable times in Australia this summer, one of the best was our stay in Daintree National Park in Queensland. Our few days there were loaded with exciting activities such as sea kayaking, horse riding, bushwalks, and my favorite, snorkeling on the Great Barrier...
Credit: Alice Fan
Major: Biology
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Everyone has seen kangaroos, wallabies, and their relatives in pictures before. But that didn't take away from being up close and personal with them; they are really quite friendly and cuddly, to be honest. The sheer diversity and uniqueness of Australian wildlife is something I...
Credit: Jeff Shi
Major: Biology
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Studying in Russia was an eye-opening experience for me. When we arrived, it was a total culture shock. On the first day we went to the grocery store to buy water and struggled even to make it past the cashier because of the language and...
Credit: Kelly Earle
Major: Environmental Science and Policy and International Comparative Studies
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
My first experience with the Russian language came in my junior year of high school, when a Ukrainian friend (almost frivolously) suggested that I should learn Russian. To my own surprise, I took up his suggestion and even started studying in my free time. However, as...
Credit: Siyang Chen
Major: Math, Computer Science
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Duke in Paris is the place to be for the summer! Although I left Paris just 2 or 3 weeks ago, I'm already missing this amazing city where you cannot be bored, no matter how hard you try. I was really thrilled with the opportunity...
Credit: Veronica Ciocanel
Major: Mathematics
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
My study abroad experience was phenomenal, and I strongly encourage each and every Duke student to take advantage of this opportunity.
I applied to the Duke in Spain program because I wanted the opportunity to really surround myself with the culture. I am fascinated by the...
Credit: Alisha Williams
Major: Biology
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Office of Study Abroad:
Duke in Mexico was an incredible experience on so many different levels.
My homestay family was awesome, maybe the best part of my time in Mexico. They took me around the town of Cholula, had great conversations over meals on a myriad of topics, threw...
Credit: Xander Nuttle
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