Global Connections: Winter 2013

Denmark

Biking Through a Snowstorm in a Skirt and Heels

Title: "Biking Through a Snowstorm in a Skirt and Heels"
Author: Zoé Kilbourne

GVSU Alumna, Zoé Kilbourne, embraces Danish culture as she transitions a study abroad program into a career in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

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Ghana: Honors

Ghana Honors Service Learning Program

Title: "Ghana Honors Service Learning Program"
Author: Joe Verschaeve

GVSU students help rehabilitate children who were trafficked into slavery in the fishing industry. Explore the history of the Frederik Meijer Honors College study abroad program and read stories from GVSU student participants.

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China

Courage, Compassion and Uyghur Noodles: My Semester in Chengdu

Title: Courage, Compassion and Uyghur Noodles:  My Semester in Chengdu
Author: Taryn Borst

During her semester in Chengdu, China, GVSU student Taryn Borst finds friendship and an emboldened sense as a language minority in a foreign culture.

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Germany

January 16, 2013: A Day in Munich

Title: January 16, 2013: A Day in Munich
Author: Erin Lutenski

Padnos Scholarship recipient, Erin Lutenski, takes readers through a day in her life in Munich, Germany.

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Spain

La Escuela de la Vida: Learning Through Living

Title: La Escuela de la Vida: Learning Through Living
Author: Samantha Cuncannan

Samantha Cuncannan fulfills her life goal of living in another country after being awarded the Padnos Scholarship to study in Spain.

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