Category: SIT Study Abroad

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you’ll also miss the person you are now at this time and place because you’ll never be this way again.” Our last night in Samoa is here. I knew that this day was…

The past two weeks have been the focus of an independent study project (ISP) with SIT. This entails setting out to manage your own time, setting up interviews, and experience what the culture has to provide. This has proved to be an interesting task, and quite a handful at points. Being in a city such…

I had been getting ready for my travels back to Sarajevo to do qualitative research, when I was given the opportunity of going to Avala mountain a few days before my departure. Avala mountain is about a 30 minute drive out of Belgrade Southeast, and offers stunning scenery of all the land around it. On…

My first week in Belgrade, Serbia is a blur. It’s been almost three months since I first landed, since I first walked the still warm streets and cautiously ordered food. I still eat more vegetables and meat in one meal than I would an entire week back home. I was half terrified, half excited each…

Since we are in the capstone phase of our program here, each one of us is on our own, conducting independent research. We make our own schedule and go to the SIT HQ only when we need or want to. It sounds amazing, but amongst scheduling (and likely rescheduling) interviews, pouring through literature, and analyzing…

I’m back in Sarajevo. It’s ISP month which means its our four week period of independent research. We were given the option of studying in Bosnia, Kosovo or Serbia and I found myself pulled back to the city in the mountains. When I packed my bags to leave Belgrade I cried, torn at leaving my…

I’ve decided that all you need for a successful semester is a bunch of cake. My only Rollins pal that came on this trip with me was Darby, who I was already good friends with. Before we came, we had many people warn us about friends going abroad together and getting sick of each other….

Last week, we completed the international excursion component of our adventure in Jordan. Our planned excursion to Istanbul was changed to a trip to the United Arab Emirates following bombings in Ankara a few weeks ago. We visited 4 of the 7 Emirates in an attempt to understand modernization and social change in the UAE…

In light of Turkey’s recent turmoil, SIT Jordan switched excursion locations to the United Arab Emirates, a country so starkly different, yet in so many ways congruous with the Middle East. Arriving into Dubai International Airport, one is instantly struck by the grandeur nature… of everything. A brand new Jaguar and Mercedes Benz greet you,…

Our very last group excursion has come and gone, and with only one month left in the program, I really don’t know where the time has gone. This last Sunday, we boarded Fiji Airways, ready to take on Fiji with the very few words we knew. “Bula” “Vinaka” “Moce” were as far as my vocabulary…