The Foreign Study Experience
"I went abroad to Brazil without knowing what to expect. Now my life path is guided by the experience that I had. It was an experience that grows in worth each day since my return."
-Heather Mckee, class of 2007
Lacy Stockton, CEP class of 2005, enjoys horseback in Ecuador.
"My study abroad experience was an internship in London during the summer of 2006. I went through the UW Global Business Center, and the program included an internship placement, housing, onsite support and so on. I lived in central London in an old mansion converted into a dorm. Seven other UW students lived on my floor, and we shared the building with other American students. I worked at a non-profit called Groundwork East London with the Community Team. Groundwork East London's work includes consultation and engagement activity, training residents in how to run voluntary groups, running community safety and health promotion programs and helping to reduce crime. The team I worked with in particular builds connections and relationships with people in disadvantaged neighborhoods that lead to environmental and social change. While living there I traveled throughout Britain, Scotland and Ireland. After my internship ended I traveled with a friend through Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. I highly recommend looking at internship programs abroad."
-Frances Bresnahan, class of 2007
Nora Dummer, CEP class of 2007, spends quality time with her cook in India.
"Me and 5 other CEPsters studied abroad in Peru in the summer of 2005. One of the most amazing and thought-provoking experiences of that whole program was our trip to the "slums" on the hills surrounding Peru's largest city: Lima, a city of roughly 10 million. These slums made up over half the population of the city; with most of the people living there being indigenous migrants from the mountains who had come to escape shrinking crop lands and extreme political violence. I'll always remembering talking to the people there and discovering that one of the things they were most passionate about was creating greenspace around their neighborhooods. These neighborhoods were complete shanty-towns, with absolutely no government-aided infrastrcuture. Almost everything they had: water, roads, electricity, etc. were from their own means. Creating greenspace for a more beautfiful environment was the last thing I thought I would hear from them. Yet, they had bold visions and plans to create greenspace in the middle of their neighborhoods, in the middle of one of the dryest places on earth: the desert west coast of South America. I realized that no matter what people have or don't have, or the conditions that surround them, greenspace to beautify one's surroudnings and enjoy is always desired."
-Sean Tevlin, class of 2007
Do you want to study internationally?
Check out these websites for some opportunities around campus.
