#Student | Black Girls Abroad

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Goodbye Greece

Here we are, the last post in my collection about my experience in Athens. This post will be rather brief. Think of it as a way to tie a nea

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The "Best" Way to Help

I went to Athens as part of the “Athena Service-Learning Trip Abroad”. So, this post is more of a personal reflection on what I learned abou

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So the Parthenon is Just...There?

Athens was like an art history book come to life, not just in a Reading Rainbow meets History Channel kind of way, but in an ultimate immers

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Travelling in a Group

One of the things that made my experience in Greece unique was the size of my travel group. This trip had close to 30 people, which naturall

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Being a Black American Woman in Athens

Being black. Being American. Being a woman. Three very different things that can overwhelmingly affect an experience abroad, especially when

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Intro to My Athenian Adventure

Greece! Land of mountains and myths, right? Well, that’s technically true, but it’s also true that Greece is made up of about 6,000 islands,

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Boldly Go (The Finale to My Qatar Adventure)

My final reflections on my VCU Study Abroad experience in Qatar. The last post in my Qatar collection.

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Country Hoppin'

This is going to be a very short post, you guys, about a topic I’m clearly passionate about. What topic, you may be wondering? Travelling.

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Not in Kansas Anymore

My experience with culture shock in Qatar was unexpected and felt far from the type of “culture shock” that had been described to me, to the

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The Art Scene in Doha

While I was here, I got a feeling that Qatar as a whole deeply understood and valued the relationships between art, design, history, culture

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