Confessions of A Working Girl

My goal is that next year, I will not be in the U.S. Not that I don’t like the U.S., but I want to travel and experience other cultures. And its slightly cheaper to do so while you are a student…thus, study abroad.

If all goes as planned, I will spend the fall 2010 semester in Spain, and the spring 2011 semester in Japan. My only worry is that I might get homesick, since both of those countries are far, far from New England.

At the moment, the semester in Spain (or any other Spanish speaking country) is mandatory, since I just decided to double major. I am now majoring in Criminal Justice and Spanish for Business. Part of the Spanish major is that you have to spend a semester abroad in a Spanish speaking country.

The semester in Japan is just ’cause I want to.

Currently, I am still looking through catalogs and brochures to try to decide which study abroad program is best. So far, for Spain, I like the ISA program. Part of the reason, I admit, is the study abroad fair. At the study abroad fair, the representative was very helpful and cheerful, and so I immediately (or almost immediately) decided that I liked the sound of that particular program. Too bad they don’t go to Japan as well–I’ll have to find a separate program for that.