Blog posts tagged with "study abroad"

  • September 5, 2010

    Back-and-forth between professors and students just isn't the norm in much of Europe. But John Ferrel didn't know that when he spent a semester at the University of Burgos in Spain before graduating in May from Boston University. "A couple of times I raised my hand in class, and everyone looked shocked," he says. But he adapted quickly: "By my second or third month, I had my first dream in Spanish."

  • February 9, 2010

    The lives of Charles and Anne Schewe changed forever when they received a phone call with tragic news on March 27, 1996.

    During that call, Dr. and Mrs. Schewe learned that their daughter Sara, a junior at Georgetown University, had been killed in a charter bus accident on a treacherous road in India. The bus was transporting students and chaperones from the Semester at Sea program for a once-in-a-lifetime visit to the Taj Mahal. Meeting their untimely death along with Sara were two tour guides, one chaperone and four other students.

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