Penn Abroad Ambassador Charlotte Fletcher

Students sitting overtop snowy mountains
CAS '25
International Relations
PGS: Colonial and Cosmopolitan Encounters in Mumbai
GRIP: Social Impact in Buenos Aires, Argentina
crfletch@sas.upenn.edu
Programs
Penn Global Seminars (PGS) Global Research & Internship Program (GRIP)

Program:

  • PGS: Colonial and Cosmopolitan Encounters in Mumbai

  • GRIP: Social Impact in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ask me about...

  • Going to countries/continents I've never visited before

  • Living in a homestay in Argentina

  • Having done two different types of abroad experiences that aren't a semester abroad

My Experience Abroad:

In Argentina, I did an internship in social impact, got to speak Spanish at home and at work, and had the opportunity to live abroad for a summer.

In India, I had the opportunity to interact with a completely new culture and language, meet and interview interesting figures, and got to see vastly different parts of a nation with many different historical influences.

Other Highlights:

  • Befriending my Argentine co-workers

  • Traveling to Patagonia to ski with my intern friends

  • Round-table conversation with Gandhi's grandson

  • Trip to Goa to see Portuguese influence

  • Birthday party in BA with my host mother and her friends

Student eating with others in Argentina
Student standing in front of church and religious statue
Student standing in front of large building in India
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