By: Zachary Vlessing, CAS ’22 Zachary bowling with a group of language exchange students in Vietnam Viet An Group – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Acclimating to the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City is no easy task. For my first time really living by myself in another country, I wanted to experience something completely…
By: Michael Lin, CAS ’22 Michael in Shangai, China Keru – Shanghai, China Click. Angsty passengers instantly threw off their seatbelts and hurried off the plane, unlocking themselves a world of towering concrete, vibrant lights, rampant commercialism, and very long lines. Flutter. People shuffled through the airport in every and all directions, like autumn leaves…
By: Oliver Osei-Asibey, Wharton ’22 Oliver in Colombia OPENLAB – Medellín, Colombia Just before coming to Medellín, I was in Rwanda for 18 days as part of a Penn Engineering service learning trip. And just before this, I was a freshman at Penn. The one common thread between all three of these experience is continuous learning.…
By: Kushal Modi, CAS ’21 Kushal in front of the Louvre in Paris US Embassy – Paris, France Kushal Modi, a rising junior and PPE major, is spending the summer as an intern with the US Embassy in Paris. As he settles into his internship, he shares his tips for visiting the iconic city and what…
By: Rachel Hong, CAS ’20 Rachel traveling in Colombia Designit – Medellín, Colombia Before coming to Colombia, everybody asked me what I was most excited for. Without fail, my answer was always the food. I come from a family that’s big on traveling, and wherever we go, my dad’s top priority is scoping out the…
By: Jenny Ko, CAS ’21 Jenny at the Lynk office in Hong Kong Lynk – Hong Kong It has only been my first week at work, but I have already noticed so many striking aspects of working at a startup company in Hong Kong. I am currently interning at Lynk, an expert network consulting company,…
By: Benjamin Bond, CAS ’20 Etonkids Educational Group – Beijing, China Twenty hours of plane rides and bad in-flight entertainment can really take a lot out of a person. Needless to say, when I arrived in Beijing after my wearisome flight, I was wiped out already. On top of it all, this was my first…
By: Sophia Simon, CAS ’19 Sophia on San Cristobal Island Galapagos Education and Research Alliance – San Cristobal Island, Ecuador 1. Try all of the new foods that you can. If you see someone eating or ordering something that you don’t recognize, get it too! Not only will you be trying something different, but you might find…
By: Ryan Bender, CAS ’21 GRIP Intern – Buenos Aires, Argentina There’s a bit of household American wisdom that goes something like this: “Friends who want to stay friends don’t discuss religion or politics.” While it is polite to be mindful of others’ sensitivities, this wouldn’t get you very far in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentines…
By: Cristina Pogorevici, Wharton ’21 GRIP Intern, The OPEN Classroom – Hong Kong As a Romanian student in the Wharton School of Business, I’m always a minority: East-European, First Generation, coming from an ex-communist country. As an intern at The OPEN Classroom in Hong Kong I was aware that once again I was going to feel…