EMILY FRITZSON- If you ever get the chance to go to Granada, I highly recommend that you take advantage of it. I traveled there this past weekend with four others Tufts-Skidmore Spain students. Despite being just a five-hour bus ride from Madrid, Granada is different in many ways. Located in the south of Spain, in […]
EMILY FRITZSON- If you can remember, I wrote a blog post a while back about the not-so-wonderful side of traveling. I had been out of Madrid every weekend for 7 weekends in a row; I was exhausted. So now it’s going to sound like I’m contradicting myself when I say that I think it’s actually […]
EMILY FRITZSON- I’ve been in Spain for about 13 weeks now, and although I will often make a PB&J at home and buy a yogurt or fruit cup at VIPS to eat at the program center for lunch, I have also tried a lot of restaurants in the Colón area. Oftentimes, I don’t want to […]
EMILY FRITZSON- Let’s be honest: everyone talks about how academics take a backseat while you’re abroad. And I’d definitely say that’s true. But I wouldn’t say that I’m necessarily learning less as a result. If I had to summarize my study abroad experience, I’d say this: I am learning as much, if not more, here […]
EMILY FRITZSON- Since arriving in Europe in January, I have traveled to six countries outside of Spain. I have been blessed with the means necessary to travel to all these wonderful locations, and I am beyond grateful for this rare opportunity. I’ve done things that I never thought I would: I tried Ethiopian food in […]
EMILY FRITZSON- My internship here in Spain has played an important role in my abroad experience. I’d actually never had a formal internship before coming to Spain, so my first ever internship experience has been abroad. My position is a teacher assistant at a private, Catholic school, and luckily I have experience working in schools […]
EMILY FRITZSON- I love this study abroad program for many reasons, but hands down, without a doubt, no competition, my host family takes the top spot. I’ll be the first to admit that I was a little reluctant about the idea of living with a host family way back when I was just beginning to […]
EMILY FRITZSON- One of the many wonderful aspects of studying abroad in the center of Spain is that it is very easy to travel not only within Spain, but also throughout Europe. The program planned two amazing trips for us. In late January, we traveled to Toledo, Spain, which was only about an hour south […]
EMILY FRITZSON- I have been in Spain for 5 weeks now, and it has undoubtedly been the most emotionally challenging 5 weeks of my life. I knew that spending a semester abroad would be tough at the beginning. But I naively assumed that once I got over the jetlag and had moved in with my […]
EMILY FRITZSON- When I chose to study abroad in Spain, a Western European nation, I assumed that I was going to be spending four months in a country essentially like my own. As a result, I thought I wouldn’t experience too much culture shock. Yet, like most aspects of this entire abroad experience, I was […]