Reflections from South Africa
Reflections by Nicole Joseph: My trip to Durban, South Africa, was amazing and eye opening. I was so excited and nervous about volunteering in a week long internship to work with special education students along-side my professors and fellow college mates. After the 16-hour flight, we were greeted by the School for International Training(SIT) team-our
Poems inspired by South Africa
Cato Manor by Olivia Santarsiero Cato Manor homes speckle the lush, green mountainside An iridescent mosaic whose colorful people and vibrant voices paint the tile pieces. Light bounces off aluminum roofs. Kindness bounces in each smile, nod, wave, laugh. Standing alone they seem broken, not whole, out of place. But together they create a community
Auf Wiedersehen Switzerland!
Our seven students and two faculty members have returned to the United States! All those who went on the trip had a truly fantastic time and would go back in a heartbeat. As we are now back in the United States, we all have some final thoughts and stories we would like to share with
GERMANY
Our last few days abroad were spent in Munich, Germany. We visited the (resistance to Hitler and the Nazi) White Rose museum and the court room in which they were ultimately sentenced to death . We also took a Nazi Third Reich walking tour and visited Dachau concentration camp. Both were somber experiences. Walking through
FRANCE
We explored Normandy and Paris. In Normandy we visited many D- Day beaches, museums and related invasion sites , including Omaha beach, Utah beach , Pointe Du Hoc and the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. We had a guided walking city tours in Bayeux and in Paris. Of course, in Paris we visited Notre Dame,
DAY TWO
Today our tour guides Sören and Mo drove us to WWI memorials, museums, trenches, bunkers, battlegrounds and other sites. We walked in trenches imagining the experiences the experiences of WWI soldiers. History major Jorge Gonzalez said , “I could not believe when I walked up to to the steps leading into the same exact trenches