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The Office of Communications is happy to create blogs for Haverford Students interested in sharing their experiences abroad with the Haverford community.
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Postcards from Abroad
...is an ongoing blog hosted by the Office of International Academic Programs. Students studying abroad for a semester or a full year share their Virtual Postcards with the community. Submit your postcard to webmaster@haverford.edu. Visit the Blog >
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The following blogs are from current and past Study Abroad participants. If you've blogged about your experience and would like your blog to appear here please email us with your name, the name of the program you participated in, and a link to your blog.
Little Maya Big World
Maya Barlev '12 an Astrophysics major is currently traveling the world on a Watson Scholarship
the prague blog
Allison Kandel '14 is spending fall of her Junior year in Prague in the Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis program.
Oxford in a Year
Ben Walter '13 spent his junior year at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.
Susannah's Scandinavian Semester
Susannah Butters '13 is an anthropology major studying in in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Helvetica Bold. Arielle Bold.
Arielle Harris '13 is a French major studying in France with Sweet Briar.
A New Yorker in Paris
Nora Landis-Shack '13 is a psychology major studying in France with Sweet Briar.
A Semester in Seville
Elizabeth Lamkin '13 is a biology major studying in Spain with Sweet Briar.
Speak Like A Moroccan
Matt Cebul '13 is an exchange student at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane Morocco sharing pictures/thoughts/stories.
wanderlust: a watson year
Madeline Kreider-Carlson '10 is spending a year traveling the world (current itinerary: Guatemala, Egypt, Uganda, Indonesia, Mongolia) as a Watson Fellow.
IES: Raffi Williams
Anthropology major Raffi Williams shares his experiences studying in Berlin during the fall of 2009.
127 Egyptian Nights
Michael Novinson '10 is a political science major, education minor, and prospective journalist. He studied abroad in Cairo during the spring semester of 2009.
Reggae in Prague
Misha Baker '10 will be attempting to infiltrate the underground reggae and ska scene, hoping to explore youth identity transformations and cultural movements as well as the theme of social justice through music using the Czech Republic as her research site.
Postcards from Paris
French major Grant Firestone '10 returns to the "City of Lights" for a summer internship at the International Herald Tribune.
Peacebuilding: Architecture in Belfast
Meghan McAllister '10 will be researching the architecture of social housing in Belfast, focusing on finding ways to incorporate peacebuilding into the design process of social housing in highly religiously segregated neighborhoods.
Democracy in Niger
Nick Lotito '10 will be traveling to Niger to work with the Nigerien Movement for the Defense and Promotion of Democratic and Human Rights.
X-Street Children in Nicaragua
Maggie Bishop '10 returns to Nicaragua to work with Asociación Los Quinchos, an intricate program for former glue-sniffing street children.
Oral History in Bali
LinKai Jiang '11 was in Bali, taking courses on human rights, social science research methodologies and ethics, while also doing field research.
Fords Down Under
Biology majors Andrew Rech '09, Theonie Anastassiadis '09 and Alexander Davies '09 blogged about their adventures while studying abroad for a semester at the University of Melbourne in Australia.