Jesse Cape: AU COSAM- Spring Program in Alcalá de Henares, Spain Spring 2019 My name is Jesse Cape and I studied abroad in Alcalá de Henares, Spain in Spring of 2020 during the Coronavirus fiasco. If you would have told me during the last week of February that I would be returning home to the…
Amanda Krawczyk: AU Liberal Arts – Summer Program in Madrid, Spain Summer 2019 On our second weekend in Madrid, most of our friends had gone out of town to explore other cities. My friends Sheridan, Callie, and I knew we wanted to stay in Madrid and try something different, so we decided to take the…
There are a lot of things in the world to see, so I hope I can go and see the world. I left my home to study in the United States. When I heard there was a study abroad program offered by the Herbert Business College to do an internship in Madrid in the…
At the young age of 8, I fell in love with the world and other cultures. I started begging my parents to let me travel anywhere and everywhere they would let me. Before college, I had already traveled abroad many times, so I knew that I wanted to Study Abroad to fully immerse myself into…
There is one question I always dread when talking about my study abroad experience: where is your favorite place you visited? With all of the amazing, unique, and diverse cities I traveled to during the spring semester of 2017, how am I possibly supposed to choose? My home base was the beautiful city of Barcelona,…
From a young age I’ve been fortunate enough to travel quite a bit with my family. It’s something we’ve always enjoyed doing and something I really wanted to do more of. When I first arrived at college and learned about the Study Abroad program, I knew I wanted to study abroad, but I wasn’t sure…
Before May 15th, my view of the world was extremely limited. Sure, I had seen the bathroom where Elvis died in Memphis, TN, walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge where Martin Luther King, Jr. and so many others began their march to Montgomery in Selma, AL, and even touched the chair William Faulkner sat in when…
I knew from the first moment that I began to research Spain as the country of my choice for a high school Spanish project that I absolutely wanted to travel there one day. It seemed so far away and a little bit scary to my small-town mind, but it was something I longed to do,…
Since before I can remember, I was told that I had a strong trait called wanderlust. When I was a little girl, learning about my great-grandmother’s Spanish heritage sparked my initial interest in the language and culture. I began speaking Spanish in 8th grade and from there on I knew that one day I had…
As a sophomore in high school, I knew that I wanted to become fluent in Spanish and to study abroad during my undergraduate career. Auburn provided me with both of these opportunities, and I chose to spend the Spring semester of my Junior year in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. I lived with a host family that could…