I gazed at my alarm clock and it once again read 4:15 a.m. The warblers outside my window along with the cicadas were having their morning meetings making sure I was awake. But it is only 4:15 a.m. and I am wide awake as light begins to filter through the cracks of my drapes declaring [...]
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“Good morning, everyone!” I said with a smile. Today was Monday, May 9, and my first English Conversation class of the new semester. My students greeted me with a resounding, “Good morning!” It is official - the new semester has begun. I teach at a private university in Tokyo and classes normally begin the first week [...]
May 19, 2011: Dhina Susanti is a senior majoring in electrical engineering. Originally from Semarang, Indonesia, Dhina first came to Madison in 2007 through a scholarship from the Freedom Institute. She will be leaving for Beijing, China in summer 2011 to take part in an international internship with Bucyrus International. What inspired you to apply [...]
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Jake Heyka is a freshman planning to major in international studies and political science. Though he had never been abroad before, he recently spent a few weeks in Cambodia teaching English to students of all ages. In this Q&A he tells us about life as a Badger within the Khmer culture. What was your reason [...]
It is a beautiful, warm day in Yokohama and I greet you all! As I sit here gazing out my window looking at the setting sun reflecting off of the buildings near my home, my mind wanders to March 11, the day that life changed for so many in Japan. It has been more than [...]
By Alumni Correspondent, John Wells, ’73 Summary of Events In Japan March 28 / 10:00 p.m. The weather was beautiful in my area today and I felt great during my afternoon walk. While listening to FEN radio that originates from Yokota AFB in Tokyo, I heard a radio report that air quality was excellent. This [...]
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By Alumni Correspondent, John Wells, ’73 Summary Of Events In Japan March 23 / 22:30 p.m. Here is my first summary of today’s events in Japan. I hope to continue this as less and less is being heard about what is happening here. We are still not out of the dark, but creeping slowly toward [...]
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By Alumni Correspondent, John Wells, ’73 It was an eerie feeling to walk through the arrival level of Narita Airport last Friday, March 18. Maybe it was the early afternoon arrival, but there was no one around and it was far too easy to go through immigration. I was happy to hear my wife and [...]
By Alumni Correspondent, John Wells, ’73 Hello everyone, I am very happy to report that my family is fine after the devastating earthquake in Japan. I am presently in Huangzhou, China on another short trip away from Japan. It took me a long time to contact my son and my wife to find out if [...]
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Dr. Lalita du Perron is the associate director of the Center for South Asia and the faculty associate for the India Initiative, as well as a faculty liaison for the study abroad program in Varanasi, India. She has come to UW-Madison by way of London, with a background in South Asian Studies and Hindi. Du Perron recently traveled [...]
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By Alumni Correspondent, John Wells, ’73 Ni Hou! 你好! ‘Tis the season to travel as college students, and those looking for a cheaper ticket out of Japan, telephone agents seeking their reward for a ticket ‘somewhere’ … I did and ended up in Hong Kong and China! I arrived just before midnight in Hong Kong [...]
By Alumni Correspondent, John Wells, ’73 Ah, the joy of high school life does come to an end! For Japanese high school seniors wanting to go on to college it simply means an intense period of study time. It is certainly not an easy process to become a university student here, but once exams are [...]
By Alumni Correspondent John Wells, ’73 Shinnen Omedeto Gozaimasu 新年おめでとうございます！ Happy New Year 2011, the year of the Rabbit. I send my heartfelt greetings to you all from my home in Yokohama. It was a chilly January 1, but I sauntered over to a local shrine to pray for good health and happiness to start [...]
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Badgers who wrote for the Badgers Abroad Blog (BAB) this past semester, share their abroad experiences. John Wells John Wells graduated from UW-Madison in December of 1973. He had studied East Asian studies and taken five semesters of Japanese before deciding to start a new life in Japan. He has lived in Japan ever since, [...]
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By Alumni Correspondent John Wells, ’73 First and foremost, a big CONGRATULATIONS (Omedeto Gozaimasu) to the University of Wisconsin football team for being invited to play in the Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1. I had the opportunity to get a ticket for the 1994 Rose Bowl and will always remember the exciting time I [...]
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By Alumni Correspondent John Wells, ’73 I wish I could write and tell you about the traditional turkey dinner with lots of dressing I will be having or friends over to watch a pro football game on Thanksgiving Day, but Thanksgiving is different here in Japan. In fact, it is a lot different! Japan’s Thanksgiving [...]
By Alumni Correspondent John Wells, ’73 Recently Tokyo has once again been given the dubious distinction of being named the MOST expensive city in the world. With the continuing rise in the yen, it appears that Tokyo will stay number one for a while. The yen today is near 80 yen to a dollar (320 [...]
Will Naythons is a senior majoring in Languages and Cultures of Asia (LAC). Naythons spent last year abroad in Vietnam through the International Academic Programs. This past summer he returned from a year abroad in Cambodia and Vietnam. Why did you decide to study abroad? I really was looking to go abroad to immerse myself [...]
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By Alumni Correspondent John Wells, ’73 As I headed down E. Washington Street heading to the capitol, memories of my student days flashed through my mind. 37 years had passed since I graduated and today I was going to finally revisit the Univ. of Wisconsin campus – the campus and area that I was so [...]
“I learned so much, not just about Indian culture, but also about myself. …I think [study abroad] improves foreign relationships with Americans … because often the only exposure they may have is raunchy TV and cultural stereotypes. It felt sometimes like I was an ambassador. Just to hear different perspectives on your own culture is [...]
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Mandy [Sioman] Chan grew up in Macau, China. She came to UW-Madison in 2008 to study computer engineering. Mandy has worked in UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies’ communications office for the past year. This summer, she traveled back to China to intern at Companhia de Electricidade in her hometown of Macau. She works there as [...]
By Alumni Correspondent John Wells, ’73 The rainy season in Japan is not my favorite season. As I headed home on a very crowded train after teaching Japanese businessmen, I could only think about my early morning baseball game the next day. I certainly hoped to do well and wanted to get home to get [...]
Enjoy this entry taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia I am writing this post Sunday night, marking the end of my last weekend in Penang, Malaysia, before heading back to the United States. Due to a busy work schedule the last few weeks coupled with wanting to spend some time [...]
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Enjoy this entry, taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia (7/25/2010)- This weekend the PDC Mechanical team had a team outing in Hat Yai, Thailand. The one downside of this trip: long travel times. We left Penang at 5:00 am on Saturday, which meant waking up at 4:00 to get ready [...]
By Alumni Correspondent John Wells, ’73 Japan’s population is around 127 million people and ranks 10th in the world. With that thought in mind, can you imagine how hectic it might be when people working in the larger cities decide to go back home to be with their families not once a year, but twice? [...]
Enjoy this entry taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia (7/16/2010 & 7/18/2010) – Friday night I went with a few friends from work to Batu Ferhinghi for dinner and a night out after work, see the pictures below! (Saturday was the trip to Kedah– see the post below this one) [...]
Enjoy this entry taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia (7/17/2010)- Today Zan and CW (two of my co-workers and good friends at Plexus) offered to take me to the State of Kedah, or “The Rice State”, as Zan explained to me. As it’s nickname implies, Kedah grows rice… lots of [...]
Enjoy this entry, taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia Hey guys, Saturday, July 10th was the birthday of Yang Dipertua Negeri of Penang, or the Governor of Penang’s Birthday, so Penang had a replacement for this public holiday on Monday, and I had a 3 day weekend. I had originally [...]
By Alumni Correspondent John Wells, ’73 A Home Away From Home Konnichi wa! Hello from Yokohama, Japan! My name is John and after graduating from UW-Madison in Dec.1973, I decided to get a fresh start and begin a new and exciting life in Japan. After studying East Asian studies and, with five semesters of Japanese [...]
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Enjoy this entry, taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia Two weekends ago, most of my co-workers had alternative plans for the weekend, and were not going to be around. However, multiple people told me that Langkawi, an island north of Penang, would be a neat place to visit, so I [...]
Enjoy this entry, taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia (6/27/2010)- Sunday afternoon, I decided to do some sight-seeing in Penang, so I went to Penang Hill. Penang Hill is famous for the old cable car that carried passengers up and down the mountain. Unfortunately, in February of this year, this [...]
Enjoy this entry, taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia Hi All, First off, sorry I have been absent in posting the last week and a half. I haven’t been able to get internet access at my hotel, which hasn’t been conducive to writing new posts. An update of what I [...]
By Cynthia Williams, Director of External Relations, UW-Madison Division of International Studies [Ed. note: Last March, Chancellor Martin signed an MOU with UW-Madison and a new university in Kazakhstan, pledging to undertake a feasibility study to develop models for a School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the New University of Astana.] When I flew [...]
Enjoy this entry, taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia My first weekend in Penang proved to be a lot of fun. On Saturday afternoon I went to a durian feast with a few co-workers from the Penang Design Center. It was great to meet a few people from work before [...]
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Enjoy this entry, taken from UW-Madison student John Krippinger’s blog, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia. Today I successfully made it to Penang! Since I left Chicago at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, I was able to sleep for most of the 14 hours of my first flight, and the second two flights were a breeze after that. [...]
Mandy [Sioman] Chan grew up in Macau, China. She came to UW-Madison in 2008 to study computer engineering. Mandy has worked in UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies’ communications office for the past year. This summer, she traveled back to China to intern at Companhia de Electricidade in her hometown of Macau. She works there as [...]
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By Alumni Correspondent Jeff Oloizia, ’07 I am standing in a throng of nearly 9000 naked men, and I am about to die. Arms extended over my head, I try pushing out with my elbows to free my chest and ribs from the crushing weight of the 300-pound Japanese man sandwiched against me. I attempt [...]
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2010 February 18 [NB: This interview first appeared in last week's Oconto Reporter.] Ed Wallace, Oconto, WI native, is a senior majoring in Languages and Cultures of Asia (LCA) and English. Last year, he studied abroad in Varanasi, India on an intensive Hindi language and research program. He has recently been awarded a Fulbright scholarship [...]
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By: Alumni Correspondent Jeff Oloizia, ’07 Hisashiburi is Japanese for “long time no see,” and I think it’s an appropriate way to begin my return to blogging after a long winter’s nap. Where have I been, you ask? (or, perhaps someone asks…somewhere) I’ll show you. I’ve been under here: This is a kotatsu. Merriam-Webster’s online [...]
by Steven B. Zwickel, College of Engineering I posted a piece on my 2008 adventure in China on the Badgers Abroad Blog. Here’s the story of what happened when I went back in 2009. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My experience in China in 2008 was transformational and I was determined to find some way of going back. As [...]
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By: Alumni Correspondent Jeff Oloizia, ’07 I am sitting in the staff room at school and stewing in self-loathe. I have the done the unforgivable. I am disgusting. It is approximately 8:30 in the morning, and the new social studies teacher with the bad toupee has come sidling over to my desk. By his manner [...]
By: Alumni Correspondent Jeff Oloizia, ’07 This is the first in which I hope to be a series of entries detailing some of the best festivals that Japan has to offer. Step outside the glass doors of Tokushima Station on any day of the year, and you may not be overwhelmed by what you see. [...]
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By: Alumni Correspondent Neal Vermillion, ’99 A lot of people ask me questions about my chosen career path such as “How did you become a diplomat?” or even “Why did you become a diplomat?” The “why” question is sometimes asked with a sense of puzzlement or even shock as in “why on earth would you leave [...]
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By: Alumni Correspondent Jeff Oloizia Of all the questions I get about my time in Japan, it seems the one facet of Japanese life that people are most interested in is the school system. Coming from an education background at Madison, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the differences between the two systems [...]
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By: Alumni Correspondent Jeff Oloizia, ’07 Hello again! Last time out I told you about my history with Madison, and now hopefully I can dig a little bit more into my life in Japan and just how I ended up here. In the spring of ’05 as a junior at UW, I had the opportunity [...]
By: Alumni Correspondent Jeff Oloizia, ’07 Greetings fellow Badgers! My name is Jeff Oloizia, I’m a ’07 UW grad, and I live in Japan. Pleasure to meet you. I’m writing here on the Badgers Abroad Blog because…well, because they’re letting me I suppose. And hopefully, because I feel I have something unique to say about [...]
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[Editor's note: UW-Madison engineering student Jeff Schacherl spent his summer interning at Plexus Corporation in Penang, Malaysia. We lifted this post from his blog, with permission.] Hi! I haven’t had time recently to update the blog because I have been very busy with work! Two of my projects are at critical points and two deadlines [...]
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So I got home about two weeks ago and didn’t have time to blog yet…so here it is… I guess not much has changed since I’ve been gone. I’ve been gone for about four months and the only change is that the weather is no longer cold. My family is still the same and so [...]
1. Bring your own toilet paper/tissue to use in the bathroom — there is not always toilet paper. 2. Most bathrooms have a 1 – 2 inch lip of marble separating it from the rest of the room. Be sure to step over this so your feet or toes do not get injured or stubbed. [...]
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By Mai Her So time is winding down…and I’ll be back in America in less than 2 weeks…sounds crazy because when I get back, I have to do a blog on the “retuning” portion of studying abroad…So I wanted to introduce some food and a few little interesting things (kind of looking back) that I [...]
Sent from Taiwan by UW-Madison dance student Brittany Wittmann Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Unlike street fashions, dancers here in Taiwan wear similar clothes, for the most part, as in the United States. Last week all of us UW dancers came to class clad in leotards and tights. We quickly found that their dancers take class, [...]
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Results for the competition:Turns out we didn’t get 1st, but we did end up in the Top 10. Which I’m really happy about! We ended up getting 8th place, which is really good because there were some really good blogs out there! I just wanted to share the results with everyone!! Good Job!! **Website for [...]
Posted from Taiwan by UW-Madison dance student, Brittany Wittmann Sunday, June 7, 2009 Today was a wonderful day. Laura, Megan, Natalie, Ali, Mychelyn, Amy, and I ventured off on our own and spent the morning and afternoon at the Shimending Market. The market surrounded a metro station and curved and winded along large and small [...]
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A missive from Kate Corby, assistant professor in the UW Madison Dance Program… June, 5, 2009 Hello!! We are having a great time and wish you were here! After a 25-hour journey starting in Madison, we arrived safe and sound in Taipei last evening. The hotel is clean and comfortable and the staff are very [...]
June 3, 2009 – Fourteen UW-Madison dance majors and three faculty members are flying halfway around the world today to participate in a three-week cultural exchange program in Taipei, Taiwan. Students will join Taiwanese students at the country’s most prestigious dance school, Taipei National University of the Arts, for daily technique classes, rehearsals, and a [...]
So I got an email saying that my writing got noticed by this Web site and they want to nominate it for TOP 100 INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND EXPERIENCE BLOG. But actually I wanted to say it’s not just me but it’s WE…YES EVERYONE WHO WRITES FOR BADGERS ABROAD. So you guys should go vote and [...]
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I’m not sure if everyone knows, but former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun commited suicide yesterday morning and it was all over the news. Since I don’t have a TV to watch the news and I don’t read the Korean newspapers (because even if I can read it, I don’t fully understand it), I didn’t [...]
So every year they do a “Hi Seoul Festival” and I believe they do two each year because they do one in the spring and one in the fall. So this is the spring one that I attended. It goes on for a whole week (Saturday to next Saturday) and every night they do some [...]
I’m always looking for a new place to go on the weekends…even weekdays, but mostly weekends due to school. My friend wanted to find a really cool place to hang out and just enjoy the atmosphere. She kept telling me about this cocktail bar that her and a friend of hers went to that was [...]
So my friend and I were wondering around to find a place to just sit and talk. We both already had dinner elsewhere separately and were just meeting because we hadn’t seen each other for a while. So the only thing that was on our minds was dessert…usually people in Korea do coffee, but we [...]
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OK…so I keep getting comments from everyone, so I’ve finally decided. If you need help from me, or have a question, please just email me. I love reading the comments from everyone, but I don’t check my blog everyday, so I can’t comment back right away. I also don’t know if you guys check back [...]
So every spring, usually around mid-April, there is a Cherry blossom Festival in Seoul. It’s trees full of blooming flowers that are all over Seoul (other places as well). It’s very beautiful and the Festival is usually in a place called 여의도 (Yeo-eui-do). I didn’t get a chance to go because I was so busy, [...]
So I’m at my halfway point of my study abroad right now. Midterms are next week, which marks the halfway point. Luckily all my professors handed out all their papers and info. for midterms this week, which makes everything so much easier. Turns out in one of my classes, my professor isn’t giving a midterm [...]
So I recently took a mini-vacation over the weekend to a city in South Korea called Busan (but pronounced Pusan). For some reason they write it as Busan, but I read somewhere that it got changed to Pusan (because of the way it’s pronounced). Anyways, Pusan is the second biggest city in South Korea (Seoul [...]
Just like every big city, there are always a few ways to get around. Not everyone owns a car, especially in a big crowded city. There’s barely anywhere to park your car, if you had one, and most places that you want to park, are either really crowded or you have to pay to park [...]
I remembered during orientation (before coming to Korea) they were talking about a roller coaster of feelings. It was about all the excitement and being all happy to go to another country, but once you hit culture shock, your might not feel as happy. Then once you get used to everything, your feelings will shoot [...]
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It’s weird because in Korea, there’s so many celebrities who live in Seoul. So far I’ve seen none… UNTIL TODAY. My friends and I were shopping in Myeong-dong and it’s famous for shopping. It’s always crowded with people, up and down the streets. As we were walking down the streets, I noticed this really tan [...]
A beautiful spot to visit is the Namsan Tower, which is referred to in tourist books as Seoul Tower or N. Seoul Tower. I always saw the tower and wanted to go. So a friend actually took me there. It has the best view of the city, especially at night. I did notice a few [...]
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I wrote about a week or so ago about how I didn’t like being recognized as a foreigner because it was very uncomfortable for me. Strangely enough, now it’s the total opposite. Lately everyone I’ve met keeps thinking I’m Korean. I thought that it was because I look (and am) Asian, but I guess there’s [...]
Lotte is a brand. It has huge department stores all over Seoul (I’m guessing other places in Korea as well). It also has LOTTE WORLD… Lotte World is a great spot for EVERYTHING. It has shopping, Food courts, an ice skating rink, bowling, shooting range, arcade, games, a museum, and an amusement park. It’s huge [...]
Each year, International Student Services holds the International Student Essay Contest. This year’s theme was “U.S. Elections: What Do You See?” This year’s first place winner is Bingzhi Zhao from China. “I brought a chocolate today, because we have a chocolate president now.” Becky, my English teacher, smiles, “Everybody got smiles in their faces today.” [...]
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So a good place to visit, if you’re really into the whole movie scene and stuff, is the COFFEE PRINCE coffee shop. It’s about a five-minute walk from Hongdae Station. It was created in 2007 for a Korean drama called “The First Coffee Prince.” So my roommate and a friend of ours took us to [...]
It’s strange because finally when everything is starting to get better, it just has to rain. I don’t know why but the rain just seems like it would bring everything down. For me, today is a better day though. It’s like “coming clean.” Silly as it sounds, it’s true. Even though I’ve been feeling very [...]
So it’s only been five days and I’m getting really really REALLY homesick. I miss my family a lot and I really miss everything about home. I was so excited to come to Korea but now that I’m here, I feel like I’d rather come here for vacation for a week rather than live here [...]
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Each year, International Student Services holds the International Student Essay Contest. This year’s theme was “U.S. Elections: What Do You See?” This year’s third place winner was Yiqian Xu from China. One day when I walked down the Bascom Hill, a beautiful girl politely stopped me. She encouraged me to register to vote, and strongly [...]
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So I finally arrived in Seoul today. It has been quite a trip. Some good and some bad. When I was in Texas connecting a flight to Japan before heading to Seoul, I sat at the wrong area, so they were boarding the plane already and I didn’t know. Luckily they called my name on [...]
So after getting only a few hours of sleep, I woke up and get ready because I really wanted to go explore the city. But I was advised by a friend of mine to just start out with the area around the school since it’s known to have a huge shopping district right outside the [...]
So I leave in about 3 days and it’s not really hitting me. Either that or it already hit me and passed. I mean about a week or so ago I couldn’t wait because I’m finally leaving for Korea soon! I was overjoyed and super super happy. I couldn’t stop smiling either. Everyone would ask [...]
Steven B. Zwickel is a faculty associate in the College of Engineering’s Technical Communication Program at UW-Madison. When I stepped out of my hotel in Guangzhou, China in July, 2008, I realized that I couldn’t read the signs, had no idea where I was, and I couldn’t understand a single word being spoken by the [...]
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So I’ve started to pack already…maybe for about two weeks now. It may seem early to others, because I still have about 7 weeks left before my acutal departure. OH WELL though, 7 weeks is killing me though. I will be gone for 4 months and 4 months is long to me. Or it may [...]
Mai Chou Her Seoul, South Korea Vitals: Undecided Major but headed towards Social Work, Certificate in East Asian Studies Goals: To take in as much as possible while I’m abroad and make it an unforgettable positive learning experience. Motivation: I just want to get out of the country and venture out on my own. I [...]
After a summer spent studying in China, UW-Madison undergraduate Ben Nyquist came back to Madison with more than just a suitcase full of souvenirs: he had an idea for a business. Thanks to a student exchange between UW-Madison and Nankai University, Nyquist spent three months in Tianjin, China, where he earned a full year’s worth [...]
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Undergraduate John Bedessem spent the summer of 2008 in Tianjin, China on a business program. Life in Tianjin: I’ve been in China for three enjoyable weeks, living in Tianjin, a city of about ten million people. The city is surrounded by factories, and since Tianjin is one of China’s largest industrial cities there’s not much [...]
Ben Hesprich, originally from Byron, Wisconsin, is a fifth-year senior majoring in Business Management and Human Resources. Ben spent the 2006-2007 academic year in Varnasi, India, and won a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship in summer 2008 for the Advanced Hindi Language Program in Jaipur, India. He also completed a Business Internship in [...]
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Kristy Kelly recently returned from 14 months in Vietnam, where she was supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship. Kristy is currently a dissertator in Educational Policy Studies where she specializes in Gender and International Comparative Education. My dissertation looks at the context in which gender trainings are taking place, and the transformative potential [...]
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-By Fulbright student John Pederson August 2008 The tipping point was when a 10th grader asked me who movie star Mel Gibson is and whether he actually is, as the “Cool News” section of her textbook stated, “the most beautiful man in the world.” No joke. The headline actually read: “Mel Gibson: The Most Beautiful [...]
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“Learning, reading, recitation, the ancient books are all corrupt…” (Dharwadker, 2003) This saying, attributed to the 15th century Indian poet-saint named Kabir, would seem to throw a cloud over all academic ventures, not least of the entire research trip I am currently engaged in. But rather than spending all of my time in India in [...]
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It’s New Year’s Eve in Cagayan de Oro, a city of 500,000 people on one of largest of the Philippine archipelago’s 7,107 islands. The pops and bangs of firecrackers join the usual jeepney honks and tricycle engine drones to make for a noisy night. The ubiquitous gun-toting security guard sits outside my hotel smoking a [...]
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