Study Abroad Advice/Tales of Your Experience

socal
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:42:12 +0000

I spent my junior year abroad studing at Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden. I had the time of my life, mostly traveling around Europe with friends. I still count two of my best friends as the girls I hitchhiked thru Europe with. Uppsala is a beautiful small town about 45 min. north of Stockholm. It is a university town, which has a rich history as the original government center of Sweden during the Viking period. There is a really neat viking graveyard just outside of town. The first summer we were there we took classes to learn Swedish and by the second semester I had two classes in Swedish. We lived in very modern student housing, I had my own room and bathroom on a floor with a shared kitchen. There are so many tales to tell, I don’t even know where to begin. I learned so much, and not necessarily in the classroom. Studying abroad is the best thing for learning about different cultures and meeting people. I am strongly encouraging my DD to go abroad. Her school has programs all over the world. She has an excellent base in French ( she went up to French 6 in HS, taking both the AP Language and Lit tests, just finished her first semester of University French with an A) and could really put it to good use on a Junior year abroad.