Overseas College Lessons

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When you are behind on a college class and are counting on spring break to catch you up on your work the last thing you want to hear is that you are going overseas for the first time in your life. That’s what happened to me this year and while traveling to a new country, especially one that I have never heard of before, sounded like an amazing experience, I still was hesitant on a few minor details like the flight time of 13 hours going there and 15 hours going back and the fact that I had already planned to hang out with a friend I get to see like 3 times a year I was not completely sold on the idea. I was focusing on the negatives though, which in the end, had little to no effect on the experiences that I would face going to this new country

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