International education and travel related links, photos, quotes and pieces of interest.
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Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travelers - and travel writers - seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.
While packing for my semester abroad in Spain my junior year I went downtown to buy a travel guide and a map. I also optimistically picked up a journal although I had never consistently kept one before and got it more because I liked the cover. Eagerly I wrote the first entry in the airport during a layover. Then I wrote again in the Madrid airport. Then I found myself writing every two or three days. My intentions were to record every little travel experience, new food tasted, and place investigated; I hadn’t foreseen that the journal would provide both an escape from the pressures on splashing headfirst into life in a different place and a place to open up my mind.
I love her descriptions of the time she spent sitting and journaling in cafés. You can learn a lot just by sitting still and watching and listening!
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People Who Studied Abroad #7:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author
From:
Nigeria
Studied:
Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Political Science - Eastern Connecticut State University (United States)
Master’s degree in Creative Writing - Johns Hopkins University (United States)
Master’s degree in African Studies - Yale University (United States)
In the video above, Chimamanda Adichie talks about the power of media, literature, travel and education to give us a broader understanding of the world and its people.
(It’s almost 20 minutes long, but it’s worth it! I also recommend her collection of short stories, The Thing Around Your Neck.)
