By: Victoria Konyk, Nursing ’26 PGS: Palermo: Empires, Migrations, and Mafia Victoria, one of the PGS Correspondents, shares her experience abroad during the Spring 2024 semester. Follow along with the group of correspondents on our blog and look out for their images on the @pennabroad Instagram feed. Preface: PGS allows you to check a bag; however, my class and professor preferred that…
By: Sean Woo, CAS ’27 PGS: Writing Health and Healing in Botswana Sean, one of the PGS Correspondents, shares his experience abroad during the Spring 2024 semester. Follow along with the group of correspondents on our blog and look out for their images on the @pennabroad Instagram feed. As Penn students know, we’re all required to take a writing seminar. Most take…
By: Thomas Sharrock, CAS ’26 PGS: Paris Under German Occupation and Its Places in [Non-] Memory Thomas, one of the PGS Correspondents, shares his experience abroad during the Spring 2024 semester. Follow along with the group of correspondents on our blog and look out for their images on the @pennabroad Instagram feed. In relation to the various major cities of the United States,…
By: Martina Bulgarelli, Wharton ’26 PGS: Communicating Change in Mongolia I am a student at Wharton, majoring in ESG and Finance with a minor in Computer Science. I made the decision to study abroad because I was driven by a profound curiosity about Mongolia’s rich culture and history, as well as a specific interest in…
By: Catherine Parr, Wharton ’21 A screenshot of one class session with Master Yin in Taiwan. Over the course of my time at Penn, I’ve had the opportunity to travel to four continents with Penn Abroad. I’ve been to Australia, Brazil, Italy, and India, and I was slated to travel to Taiwan this semester with…
By: Joseph Squillaro, Penn Abroad Leader, CAS ‘21 Erin Hayes, a junior studying Physics, participated in a Penn Global Seminar that traveled to Delhi, India, where she learned about the city in this unique writing seminar during Spring 2019. I sat down with her to learn more about her time abroad, her inspiring learning experiences, and what…
By: Joseph Squillaro, Penn Abroad Leader, CAS ‘21 Charlotte (bottom row, second from right) during her travels with fellow Penn students and students from KNUST in Ghana Charlotte Cecarelli, a member of the Class of 2022, participated in a PGS to Ghana during Spring Break of 2019 where she learned about culture, development and health in…
By: Joseph Squillaro, Penn Abroad Leader, CAS ‘21 Jenna DiStefano, a member of the Class of 2021, participated in a PGS to Sienna and Rome, Italy in May 2019, where she learned about Italian Sign Language and disability rights. I sat down with her to learn more about her time abroad, her inspiring learning experiences, and…
By: Shreya Naraparaju, Penn Abroad Leader, CAS ‘22 Simran traveling in summer 2018 Simran Chand, a rising senior studying Biology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies on a pre-medical track, has been abroad twice during her time at Penn: first, to Spain through a Penn Global Seminar (PGS), and immediately after, to Sydney, Australia as part…
By: Bilaal Azeer, CAS ’22 PGS – The City of Delhi: New, Old, and Unmapped Travel to India I am writing this sitting in the shade of the terrace gazebo at my house, back in my home country. It’s another warm summer day here, but time seems to have stopped. People are not swarming the streets,…