Go Abroad!!

My roommate from Florida painted a South African flag to support the soccer team before we headed to the bar to cheer them on!

One of the most difficult decisions any college student has to make is whether to study abroad during their college career. As a junior, I took the opportunity to intern in Cape Town, South Africa for eight weeks, and it was one of the most challenging and amazing times of my life. To this day, I still cannot believe I traveled 18 hours to another continent!

Being able to place studying or interning abroad on your resume places your it in the top 33% of applicants. Many students are not required to study abroad. However, now at SU students are required to be apart of the GO program where they are required to intern or study somewhere else for at least two weeks. This can either be done in the summer or part of a semester abroad.

Here is stand in my orange outfit ready to cheer on the Netherlands. The stadium was built just for this World Cup!

Going abroad will challenge and change you. My experience is one that I will never forget as I attended the World Cup, ate at a fire-cooked ten course meal along the beach, went to a professional Rugby game, climbed to the most souther tip of Africa, and was challenged at my internship at Africhic. If ever given the opportunity to study or intern abroad, you have to do it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, and within a few years, you'll be too busy with life and work to do it!

And if given the opportunity, I highly encourage you to go to South Africa! It's a beautiful place with amazing people and such a giving culture!

Here I stand at the Cape of Good Hope; the most southern tip of Africa.

I attended a South Afrian Rugby game as they played France. It was so intense.

This is an overlook of the city if Cape Town. The pictures do not do justice.

This is the walk up to the lighthouse at the Cape of Good Hope. It was a tiring walk!