Dear Global Education Office:
We went all the way across the world to study in a place of rich culture, food, and landscape. Beijing is a metropolitan experience, but the summer trip was much more than that. Our language program went along hand in hand with the things we saw and…
Dear Global Education Office:
I've seen the "Great Wall of China" numerous times in pictures. I've heard about the various political and social issues China faced. But little did I know that these aspects looked and felt different when I personally got to experience them in China.
Based on the…
Dear Global Education Office:
On the last day of a weeklong research project that had taken me to a remote Indian village, my host mother decided to dress me in her wedding sari. We spent the morning taking pictures in her wheat fields as hordes of children gathered to watch that…
Dear Global Education Office,
I just got back from the first year of Duke's Global Semester Abroad: India + China, and it was in a word: incredible. In India, I took part in an Indian village wedding, learned how to milk a cow, caught auto rickshaws around town, witnessed a traditional…