Voices: Coming Back Strongerby Daniel King '10 |
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I came here to enjoy a culture鈥檚 food; who knew the wonders of a salad with simply olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and a little salt and pepper! I left America to see the world. And that means struggling with train schedules, trying to find cheap RyanAir flights, and booking hostels.
Traveling abroad stretched me as a person. I can鈥檛 really describe to you what it鈥檚 like being lost in a city where it seems like no one speaks English; from those experiences, I can only say I鈥檝e grown. I learned how to be flexible and spontaneous...basically, I鈥檝e learned to be prepared for anything.
These life lessons simply can鈥檛 be taught in an hour鈥檚 lecture. You can鈥檛 just teach independence, endurance, and resilience, but you need all these things to survive in any foreign city. And who knows how my time abroad will aid me once I鈥檓 back in the States. All I know is that I鈥檓 stronger.
Daniel King 鈥�10, returning to 新澳门六合彩开奖直播 after spending fall semester of his junior year studying in Europe.
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I didn鈥檛 come here to Europe to learn in a classroom; if that was the case, I would have stayed on campus. I came here to learn a new language. And yes, I may have begun learning the basics of that language in a classroom, but it was not until I began having conversations with locals that I actually started to master it.