1)Daily Life

Daily life in a Study aboard at UNK is changing since the day you get to the place that you will call home for the next few months of your life. This being my third study aboard I have gotten to experience daily life many time and see how daily life changes you. The moment you get into the new country everything you do from ordering food to finding some old building to tour is a new experience.

So as you go on throughout the study aboard you get used to some of the new experiences but still find new experiences every day. With that being said on a study aboard there is no actual daily life. You as a person is changing and becoming stronger with every day passing. You meet new people, and have new laughs about some little thing that is so funny to the group of people you are with. Even when you bring it up a year later it is still funny.

With this program about to be to an end we have to have so many hard goodbyes. The group of people you come with almost become like a family to you over the last couple months spending day in and day out with one another. Of course everyone in the group has there ups and downs. Everyone goes through missing loved one back home, being sick, and having the time of their lives with the people around us.

I can’t say this enough but studying aboard is truly a life changing event which makes you try so many new things and learn a whole different culture. Everyone that I have come here with is leaving Olomouc as a whole new person. This has opened everyone eyes to the wonderful world of traveling.

With that being said there are also some hard times ahead for all of us going back to the United States. We have been away so long that life was moving forward back home and we have been in a stand there but have been opening our hearts and minds in another country. The transformation back to what some would call reality can be really hard. We won’t be experiencing new things every day and all the memories we made wont sound as good to family and friends when we tell them the stories of us getting lost or meeting someone new.

However, I think everyone in the United States that goes to college should study aboard. It’s truly a one of a kind experience that can’t be expressed in blogs or Facebook pictures. So if anyone is reading this blog and is unsure about studying aboard for some reason my advice is “just do it!” My advice to you is don’t think about it too much and dive right in! Some wait too long in there college years to do one and end up never doing a study aboard then later in their life they will regret it.