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Blogs written by students participating in Go Global: International Learning Programs offer a glimpse into the ins and outs of studying in another country.
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Julianne Piper
International Service Learning, Swaziland
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Faculty/Program:
Arts, International Relations
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Bio:
Julianne was born and raised in the Lower Mainland, but has always yearned for adventures abroad. She is in her 5th and final year at UBC and hopes to pursue a master's degree in something to do with International Development.
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Hobbies:
Skiing, swimming, reading, sewing, hanging out with friends, and of course travel!
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Meghan Price
Arts Term Abroad in Global Citizenship, Guatemala
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Faculty/Program:
2nd year arts undeclared (planning on International Relations)
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Bio:
Meghan has just completed her year as Top Teen of Canada (a national student development program) and is an avid rock hunter, actor and vegan. She’s known as the girl who wore polka-dot gumboots to her prom and who stopped a plane on an Egyptian tarmac. The possibilities of what her term in Guatemala will bring are endless.
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Hobbies:
Dancing, Cooking, Travelling, Yoga, Photography.
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Sarah Chaster
Outgoing exchange, Sciences Po, France
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Faculty/Program:
Arts - English Literature/International Relations
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Bio:
Sarah grew up in North Vancouver, and decided to go to UBC because not only was it a great school, but it was a great middle distance: close enough to still be able to visit her parents and little brother (and occasionally drag some laundry home), but far enough to move out and set up her own life. She has one more year of studies to complete at UBC, and she hopes to then take some time off to work and travel, and then go on to graduate or law school.
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Hobbies:
Music (listening to pretty much anything, or playing piano and guitar), reading, writing, camping, outdoor activities/sports, traveling, Sudoku.
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Joe Hinchliffe
Incoming Exchange, University of Queensland, Australia
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Faculty/Program:
Arts - Journalism/Geography
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Bio:
Joe was born and bred in sunny Queensland, home of Australia’s best beaches and currently in the midst of a 6 year drought. He is looking forward to experiencing his first real winter and even Vancouver’s infamous winter rains.
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Hobbies:
Shark fighting, dolphin training, kangaroo riding - like all Australians.
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Victoria Tothill-Brown
Outgoing Exchange, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
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Faculty/Program:
Asian Area Studies major (hopefully honors) with a minor in Economics
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Bio:
Victoria is a 21-year-old undergraduate who took 2 years off between high school and university to 'find herself' through a high school exchange to Okayama and Kyoto, Japan, and then a year of working 3 jobs simultaneously. Now that she’s at UBC, she is trying to take advantage of all opportunities offered to her.
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Hobbies:
Swimming, soccer, reading ahead in textbooks, playing in the rolling stacks at Koerner Library, working with exchange students, volunteering with ASIA (Asian Studies Interests Association), volunteering (Imagine UBC, residence move-in day, PRIDE), working with the disabled, watching reality dance shows.
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