1 Message from the Dean 2. About Us 4. The 411 6. Marist in the Dominican Republic: Spanish & Technology 8. Study Abroad Scholarships 10. Confessions of a Study Abroad Junkie 12. My Journey to South Korea 13. New Place? Really, It’s Quite Easy 14. Jump into the Adventure! Asia Study Abroad Program 16. Game Changer 17. Hansard Scholars Programme 18. Hujambo! 20. Phototastic! 22. There’s No Place Like Dublin 23. Reutlingen University, School of Management 24. Experience Madrid! Be Madrid! 25. Carmina: Madre Anfitriona 26. Carmina: Host Mom 27. Morocco Adventure 28. Enjoying Life Down Under 30. Young Michelangelo’s Florence 32. What’s Cooking? 33. Florence Prescription: Independence 34. Venice Biennale 36. Marist in Ghana: Medical Experience 38. Where will you go? Photo: CC Lou Lagarde CC Photo: Photo: CC giuseppesavo Photo: CC CC Photo: giuseppesavo

A MESSAGE FROM INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS Dr. John E. Peters, Dean

American poet Robert Frost ends his famous build new networks, and learn to thrive in poem “The Road Not Taken” with the oft- the host culture. Things previously taken quoted lines: for granted–shopping for food, cooking, transportation, meeting new people, Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– and political discussions with professors, I took the one less traveled by, colleagues, and taxi drivers–provide fresh and that has made all the difference. opportunities to engage with new cultures and communities and to find our place While a colleague in Marist’s Department within them. of English informs me that like many others I may have misunderstood Frost (for many We cannot seek to replicate our lives, years now it would seem), my particular routines, and cultural interactions abroad (mis)interpretation of these lines resonates as they are at home. If everything abroad Enjoying a meal in Tuscania, Italy. From left: Dr. deeply for a professional working in the field is to be the same as at home, why go? John E. Peters, Dean of International Programs; Aida of international education. Because I am an Rather, what we do is push ourselves to Hernandez (Mexico, BA studio art, digital media at Marist Florence Campus); Justin Barber (Ohio, economist and not a poet, perhaps I may be grow by experiencing something new. And MA museum studies Marist Florence Campus); forgiven for continuing to misinterpret the by following this road less traveled (less Daniela Fanelli (Italy and Chile, communication lines for my own purposes, which I will write than ten percent of current freshmen in the major, Freshman Florence Experience Program); about here. USA are expected to study abroad in their and Shareef Jarbawi (Palestine, Freshman Florence college years), students who go abroad set Experience Program). I frequently argue that education abroad themselves apart by undertaking learning is all about exploration–be it a faculty-led opportunities not available to many of their learning from mistakes, and the ability to short-term program, a semester or two in peers. laugh at oneself along the way doesn’t one or more of the many countries we offer, hurt, and can make the path smoother. The or a bachelor’s or master’s program at our Students sometimes ask me if it’s necessary application of such a purposeful, focused, Florence branch campus. It is exploration to go far afield to get the full benefits of and reflective yet highly flexible attitude of the world and of ourselves–figuring overseas study. The “study in London vs. often leads us down the road less traveled, out who we are, who we want to be, and study in Tibet” question, one might call it, which (with apologies to Frost) can make all how to get there. On one level, of course, or boldly going where few have gone before the difference. this is the purpose of going to college, should one wish to paraphrase Star Trek. particularly at a liberal arts institution such The answer is, not necessarily. Study abroad I hope you enjoy the 2015 issue of as Marist. There’s something about being is less about “where” and more about Globetrotter magazine. Herein you will a stranger in a strange land that really “why,” and connects with my take on Frost’s find essays and other contributions from forces personal development. We not only poem. While in one sense the road to Marist students, staff, and faculty, reporting embark upon classroom studies abroad, London is certainly more traveled than the on myriad experiences abroad through but we do so in the context of a different one to Tibet, one can boldly go anywhere. Marist International Programs. We have culture. For many, experiencing a different Rather than a particular destination, it’s also included a number of photographs, educational context contributes greatly to more about charting your own path in a new many taken by Marist students, to illustrate the overall learning experience. Moreover, environment, making the experience your and further entice you toward the abroad beyond the classroom we develop and own, taking full advantage of every moment, experience. My own photo included here hone problem-solving skills, flexibility, and articulating and then reflecting on your is of students and me enjoying lunch in proactive orientation, and creativity as objectives, goals, and progress. Taking Tuscania, Italy, which is one of my favorite we figure out how to conduct our lives, things as they come, accepting difference, places in the world.

1 Globetrotter ABOUT MARIST INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS Marist International Programs (MIP) promotes international engagement and academic, personal, and professional development through rigorous, reflective study abroad, overseas internships, and international campus programming.

MIP offers a variety of study abroad experiences that support a broad range of educational objectives, with affiliated programs on six continents. These experiences are open to all Marist students meeting eligibility criteria and upon successful application. A number of Marist programs are open to non-Marist students as well. We offer semester, full academic year, and short-term programs, enabling students of any major to study abroad and complete degree requirements within their four-year plan.

Be more than a tourist: experience what it means to live and study abroad!

MIP Staff Dr. John E. Peters, Dean Carol Toufali, Senior Coordinator Jerre Thornton, Coordinator James Morrow-Polio, Assistant Coordinator Ruth Watts, Office Assistant

MIP Office (845) 575-3330 [email protected] marist.edu/international

GlobetrotterGlobetrotter 22 italy.marist.edu [email protected] (845) 575-3226(Admissions) (845) 575-3330(Academics) Marist Italy Office Diane Ralston, OfficeAssistant Deborah Holtman, Assistant Registrar Joseph Giacalone, Executive Director ofInternational Admission& Recruitment Jesse Mungin,Resident Director Stephanie Elmessaoudi,Resident Director Emily Pasquerello, Assistant Coordinator Christie Alfaro, Assistant Director Brad Miller, Assistant Director Vanessa Nichol-Peters, Director Dr. JohnE.Peters, ActingDean Marist Italy Staff and of, advantage full takes programs and degrees these of Each interacts with,theuniquecultural, historical,studies. andeducational environment that isFlorence, Italy,museum andSouthernEurope. in degree MA an as well as campus, Florence the on offered currently are Italian and design, interior design, fashion media, digital history, studies, conservation art art, degrees studio Bachelor’s in schoolers. high for Program Pre-College Summer the and abroad, study semester abroad traditional study (FFE), one-year Experience a program, degree master’s a degrees, bachelor several offers Italy Marist Florence. in campus branch a full university offering or college US only the Institute, is Medici Lorenzode’ the with partnership in College, Marist MARIST ITALY US Freshman Florence Freshman 3 Globetrotter 3 Globetrotter

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EDITOR FACULTY & STAFF ESSAYS Philip Lopez Carol Toufali Prof. Amy Cahill Alexander Marinescu Dr. Isabel Carrasco Cara Mooney LAYOUT Dr. Kevin Gaugler Robin Miniter Jerre Thornton Prof. Richard Lewis Erica Nishimoto Dr. Carolyn Matheus Kristen O’Brien COVER PHOTO Dr. John E. Peters Aidan O’Shea Cape Point, South Africa Pat Taylor Matthew Sacco Jesse Scannapieco STUDENT & ALUMNI ESSAYS STUDENT & ALUMNI Kristal Seidita Caterina Armenter PHOTOS Jenna Snyder Nicholas Bayer Genesis Abreu James White Alex Berube Caterina Armenter Qu Ting Zheng Eury Fabian Nicholas Bayer Christine Healy Alex Berube FACULTY & STAFF PHOTOS Audre Hirtelen-Booker Kathryn Chmielewski Prof. Amy Cahill Morgan Kelly Meghan Deasy Dr. Wesley King Kristen O’Brien Majay Donzo Dr. Carolyn Matheus Matthew Sacco Cody Eichelberger Jesse Scannapieco Eury Fabian WANT TO CONTRIBUTE? Jenna Snyder Alirio Gonzalez If you are a former or future MIP Emily Sperber Christine Healy study abroad participant, you can be Patrick Tobin Carey Jamilkowski a Globetrotter contributor! Take some Qu Ting Zheng Morgan Kelly beautiful photos, write an inspiring Erika Lopez essay, and submit your work for the next issue. Contact MIP for more details at [email protected].

MARIST ITALY STUDENT ASSISTANTS 2013-14 Student workers not only play a crucial role on Marist’s Hudson Valley campus, but on the Florence branch campus as well. Students enrolled in one of the Florence-based bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, as well as the Freshman Florence Experience (FFE), are eligible to apply for a number of positions available in Florence in areas such as excursion assistance, social media, and general office work.

As on the home campus, becoming part of the international team in Florence means working to create, facilitate, and support the highest-quality education-abroad programs possible. Marist Italy students undertaking the FFE or their full degree in Florence should contact [email protected] for more information.

Graduate Program Assistants BA Program–Student Assistants FFE–Student Assistants Alessandra Bianco Lucia Abouzeid Gloria Ibanez Allison Boyd Elena Gauthier Tiffany Scott Lisa Davis Alexander Salazar Lauren Sibole Lauren Frye Patrick Tobin Chelisse Perry Shontai Pohl Costantino Spinosa

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MIP STUDENT ASSISTANTS 2013-14 You’ve seen them on campus. In Marist classrooms giving presentations. Standing behind tables in Dyson, Donnelly, Hancock, and the Student Center, recounting adventures accompanied by open laptops displaying tens (or hundreds) of photos from abroad. You may also have seen their social media handiwork, through the MIP Facebook site and Twitter feed. Or perhaps you’ve seen them working on important projects and offering vital assistance in the MIP offices on the second floor of the Hancock Center. Who are these people? They are the Marist International Programs student workers.

At Marist, the international experience does not end upon completion of a program abroad. For alumni of Marist’s international programs, ongoing engagement with international and intercultural perspectives takes many forms. Some study abroad alumni formally work for MIP. Many more MIP alumni volunteer as study abroad ambassadors helping to share the value of the overseas experience in classrooms, hallways, dorms, and online.

Our work is strengthened through the unique contributions of our student workers and volunteers. Their assistance in helping us to offer the strongest programs possible is greatly appreciated. Here’s a list of the student workers who gave assistance in the 2013-2014 academic year. Due to space limitations, we cannot list the tens more who have volunteered with our fall and spring study abroad fairs, orientations, and other activities. But you know who you are, and to each of you, we say: thank you!, grazie mille!, domo arigato!, shukran!, merci!, jai-rruh-jef!, vielen dank!, ¡muchas gracias!

MIP alumni interested in working or volunteering with MIP should contact [email protected].

Student Assistants Kerianne Baylor–Spain Jocelyn Espinal–India Jennifer Guzzardi–Australia Kathryn Herbert–Italy, Scotland Kendra McKechnie–France, Senegal Claire Mooney–England, Ghana Eric Niermeyer–Italy Dillon Orr–Italy Emily Pasquerello–Italy Grace Sin–Italy, England Lauren Wennell–England, France

5 Globetrotter Globetrotter 6 In June 2014 Marist students majoring In another station, students generated in Spanish and computer science/ and edited text, images, and video for the information technology and systems (CS/ Web site using Android XO tablets—most ITS) collaborated in a two-week short-term notable for being used in the One Laptop study abroad program and service-learning Per Child program—and were introduced project in the Dominican Republic. The to a variety of educational applications and group travelled to Cabarete, Dominican collaborative software. In the final station, Republic, to provide a technology-education students learned about generating and summer camp for junior high and high school editing Web sites using HTML. Commenting students at the Centro de Aprendizaje y on his experience, IT major Steven Bacdayan Desarrollo Integral (CADIN). Marist students noted, “I strongly feel that volunteering my helped camp attendees build a Web site for time and expertise has helped inspire kids I learned an incredible their school (colegiocadin.com), providing to pursue careers in technology.” amount about the them with technology-related skills they can use to help their community. All Marist students were afforded the language, technology, opportunity to apply their knowledge in CS/ITS students gained hands-on the field while building new connections and myself. I experience setting up a local area network and relationships and to give back to an strengthened my and providing technology education to underprivileged community with limited an economically repressed population. access to technology education. In command of Spanish Spanish-language students gained real- addition, they gained cultural and historical world experience as curriculum developers, knowledge of the Dominican Republic while teaching native translators, and interlocutors for camp through this innovative and engaging attendees. Spanish-language student Kyle service-learning project, as well as through Spanish speakers HTML. Heubner commented: educational excursions that explored the The students were cultural and natural landmarks of the I learned an incredible amount about Dominican Republic’s north coast. On the incredibly receptive and the language, technology, and myself. I weekends and in the afternoons, the group strengthened my command of Spanish visited a Jewish museum in Sosua, learned accommodating in what while teaching native Spanish speakers how to surf, snorkeled around coral reefs, was the most rewarding HTML. The students were incredibly went zip-lining through Monkey Jungle, receptive and accommodating in what was and explored local beaches and caves. “This experience I have had the most rewarding experience I have had opportunity is unparalleled and I am proud as a Marist student. It was fun to work as to have been part of it,” noted CS major as a Marist student. a team because neither group of students Matt Maffa. could have succeeded without the other group’s help. I cannot wait to return to We feel that the unique combination of Kyle Heubner ’17 Cabarete next year and see the progress community service, education, technology, CADIN has made. Spanish, and pure adventure makes this program stand out. Kyle Heubner Camp attendees worked in groups that recommends the program “to all computer rotated through a series of activity stations science and Spanish students as it brought led by Marist CS/ITS and Spanish students. together two very different disciplines in a In one station, students used Raspberry powerful way.” Pi technology to learn basic aspects of computing and networking, including an We plan to return to the school with a new introduction to programming using Scratch. group of Marist students in 2015, and to continue to offer the program thereafter as well!

Photos: Dr. Carolyn Matheus

7 Globetrotter Photo: MIP STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIPS PAT TAYLOR Graduate School and Fellowship Advisor

Students contemplating study abroad should be aware that there are several notable scholarships to fund those travels. Here I would like to give some important information on scholarships as well as offer reflections of To provide recent scholarship recipients. a better The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship and the Boren Awards understanding for International Study are competitive scholarships that help pay for undergraduate semesters abroad. of the

Students who have already spent some portion of their college career benefits of abroad and want to go back following graduation from Marist should look into the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. This prestigious award funds from pursuing these nine to eleven months of either research into a specific topic, or teaching scholarship English in another country. opportunities, Academically high-achieving students who would like to pursue advanced study abroad might wish to look into fellowship opportunities supporting past Marist graduate study in Europe:

awardees of Photo: Alirio Gonzalez OO The Rhodes Scholarship funds such study at Oxford University; OO The Gates Cambridge Scholarship supports the Gilman graduate study at Cambridge University; and Fulbright lirio Gonzalez was awarded the Gilman OO The Marshall Scholarship supports advanced study at a to study in Madrid during the spring wide range of universities across the United Kingdom; reflect on semester of his junior year. He captures OO The Mitchell Scholarship funds advanced study in Ireland; A the Gilman emphasis on making study abroad OO The Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)–or German their own attainable for students who face financial and Academic Exchange Service–offers a range of undergraduate study other obstacles to such study, noting that one or internship grants as well as graduate scholarships for Germany. experiences of the goals of the Gilman is to not only diversify with these the destinations where students travel abroad All of these scholarship applications require the student to compose an but also to diversify the types of students who essay or essays that express the student’s motivations, achievements and, applications. study abroad. Students of color sometimes feel emphatically, the student’s highest aspirations in studying abroad.

Globetrotter 8 that getting into college is already a very large life stages through a local’s perspective: all the chance and happenstance India threw hurdle and studying abroad isn’t even on the weddings, funerals, anniversaries, foods, and at me, it was in this moment that I knew horizon. celebrations. that this Fulbright experience was something special. On the kind of hard thinking demanded by the Phil received highly useful feedback from Gilman application, Alirio recalls: the Marist College Fellowships Committee, Robin offers invaluable advice for those commenting: contemplating the Fulbright “academic” grant: I thought I knew why it was that I wanted to spend a semester in Madrid. The application My one piece of advice would be to make Before you apply, reflect. Superficially: What process was an opportunity for me to really sure your Statement of Grant Purpose, and are your reasons for applying? Secondarily: take a look at myself internally and discover Personal Statements, are authentic and true What, in your waking life, speaks to you? the ways in which a semester in a foreign to you. This is your chance to say who you What is your quirk, and how can you capitalize country could impact my life. After several are and why you are a good fit for a Fulbright on it, delve into it, explore it, and share its revisions of my personal essay, I learned that Scholarship. Before you write your statements, value with the world at large? What do you many of the superficial reasons I had originally take the time to think and understand what have to give? What questions are you asking, listed barely scratched the surface of the value you are applying for, why you want it, and and better yet: Why are you asking them? an international experience would provide. what it is about your character that makes How uncomfortable are you willing to get? Applying for the Gilman and having to write you a good candidate. Say what you want How willing are you to be confused, surprised, a personal statement allowed me to further to say, but remain open to criticism. I would frustrated, and elated? How open are you to understand my own motivations and goals in advise people not to change their message if changing? life. they think it is important, but do listen to all advice with an open mind. Photo: Genesis Abreu Photo: Philip Lopez Photo: Robin Miniter Photo: Robin enesis Abreu ’15 was awarded the hilip Lopez ’13 is one student for whom Gilman to study in Costa Rica during the an undergraduate semester abroad was obin Miniter ’11 was awarded a Fulbright Gfall semester of 2013. Below she offers Psimply not enough. After learning of the research study grant to do research in this essential advice: Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) RIndia. In her case, her Fulbright project in grant, which places young US graduates in India united her major in journalism, her minors Be honest with yourself and in your other countries, he applied for the ETA grant to in women’s studies and global studies, her skills application. Dig deep down and ask the hard Vietnam. as a photographer, her passion for rugby, and questions. Why do I want to go abroad? the fascination she had developed with the Why and how is this experience going to be After finishing my study abroad experience in country from the time her younger sister was meaningful in my life? I knew I wanted to go Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, I couldn’t shake the adopted as an infant from that country. She to Costa Rica because of how important it feeling that I wasn’t ready to leave. There was recalls struggling to develop her topic, when was for a student like myself. I am interested still so much more to experience in Vietnam, there was the late-night counter conversation in sustainable development in Latin America so much more to see, and so much more to in Fulton with one of her best friends: and plan to have a career in this field. My learn. I thought my feelings were natural abroad experience in Costa Rica allowed me to and would go away within a few months as My threads were all leading to dead ends witness firsthand how a nation emphasizing I reacclimated to America. As months passed and I was concerned. “What about rugby?” sustainable development operates and what I realized that I had to return. The Fulbright she asked, “Do they play rugby in India?” factors contribute to its development. Scholarship allowed me to return to Vietnam After a search on Google, the video I found–a and experience the country in a much newscast clip on the Indian Women’s Rugby These opportunities give students access to different way than as a five-month foreign National Camp–inspired my final proposal. needed financial resources, as well as life- student. Being a Fulbright English Teaching Coming full circle, I later found that video changing experiences. To learn more, seek Assistant in a rural area of Vietnam allowed one more time–but now, I would be sitting in me out at [email protected], and read me to see a side of the country I never could my living room in Pune with one of my best more Marist students’ stories on the College’s have experienced otherwise. It has allowed Indian friends whom I had met there. “Let me scholarship page: marist.edu/academics/ me to become more than just a visitor and show you this video I’m in,” she said, “it’s on scholarships. grants me unique opportunities to experience YouTube.” I had not made the connection. Of

9 Globetrotter MATTHEW SACCo ’07

Like most students who study educational pursuits beyond the and the texts from my classes immersed myself in the culture abroad, my life has been forever campus. I decided to major in came alive, I also started seeing through academic coursework, changed by my overseas international communications my own culture and values in but I also had a great internship experiences. Twelve years after while plotting to go abroad as a new light. I finally felt like I at a student travel company, my first academic experience soon as I could conceivably fit it stepped out of my New York where I was able to develop abroad as a high school student into my schedule. “bubble” and my worldview had important skills and experience. in Australia and New Zealand, shifted for the better. I was also On a personal level, meeting and eight years since my Marist My first opportunity to go abroad fortunate to make a lifelong the woman who would one study abroad experience in while at Marist was a summer friendship with my host family, day become my wife on that Ireland, my career, hobbies, Spanish immersion program the Cardenas. trip made Ireland a particularly skills, degrees, and even my in Guadalajara, Mexico, which special place for me. marriage are all directly tied to inspired me to declare Spanish My next adventure was in spring the study abroad experiences I as my minor. In addition to the 2006 when I joined a dozen other These experiences solidified was so fortunate to have. Spanish language being woven Marist students in Dublin for the my interest in international into my life from that point on, it semester. The semester before education and afforded me the I am currently the assistant was amazing to live in a culture leaving I took an Irish history opportunity to begin considering director of international programs that I had been studying since course and, while in Dublin, I a career in the field. When I really at American University’s my early teens. Latin American walked the city’s narrow streets, thought about what drew me School of International Service culture surrounded me and, each one rich in history, and to international education and in Washington, D.C., and as for the first time, things just became fixated on learning as study abroad, I realized that it a professional in the field of “clicked.” As my mind began to much as I could about the Easter was more than just a desire to fill international education, I often work effortlessly in the language Rebellion of 1916. I not only my passport with stamps. Like reflect on my time at Marist as many students, I had to work foundational to my personal and hard to maintain good grades professional development. I hope throughout my schooling. this short article conveys my While some people were able enthusiasm for the transformative to get by with less studying and nature of education abroad and preparation, I spent endless provides an interesting read and hours in the library, with tutors, “report back” from a Marist grad, etc., to make grades that were in some years out. line with my goals. As I got older and became aware of differences After participating in a student in learning styles, I came to exchange program in high appreciate that in particular, school, finding a college with a I thrived with experiential strong study abroad program learning–that is, learning by was a must. Marist not only had doing. Studying abroad can be a strong study abroad program a classic example of experiential with diverse program offerings, learning and provided an but also a student body who educational experience much shared my desire to take my more conducive to my style of learning than anything I had Globetrotter 10 experienced in a traditional After a couple of years at AIFS, classroom setting. I moved to Washington, D.C. to pursue a master’s degree in After my semester in Ireland, I international education at The returned to campus and began George Washington University. working for Marist International While earning my degree, I Programs. While building also worked at GWU serving important professional skills both as the coordinator for and getting my feet wet in outdoor education programs the profession, I was able to and a graduate assistant for the participate in two other short- School of Business–International term study abroad programs Programs. Upon graduation (Galapagos and South Africa). from GWU, I accepted a three- month internship in Malaysia to I graduated from Marist in the help establish the international spring of 2007 and moved to programs office at a new Argentina for six months to teach university in Kuala Lumpur, English. My time in Argentina where to my surprise, I soon was culturally enriching, learned one of my colleagues personally challenging, and there was also a Marist alum eye-opening. However, unlike (Justin Calderon ‘07)! While at my previous trips, this one Marist, Justin had studied abroad pushed me further outside in Bangkok, Thailand, and had my comfort zone, and was been working and traveling exactly what I was looking for. throughout Asia more or less This time, I wasn’t surrounded since he had graduated. by classmates or following an expertly organized itinerary. Since returning to the US, I Instead, I was completely on have found and have settled my own and forced to learn into a wonderful position quickly how to navigate a new as assistant director of environment as well as manage international programs at the my own time and finances to School of International Service maximize my experience. I at American University. Since taught English to adults during joining AU, I have helped to the day, explored the vibrant develop study abroad programs city in my off hours, and traveled and have taken students to a the countryside (land of the number of fascinating places Gauchos) on weekends to lead including Cuba, China, and youth language camps at rural Turkey. I have been incredibly schools. fortunate to be able to turn my love for adventure into a career As my stay in Argentina started path. From the streets of Havana to wind down, I began to to the Appalachian Trail, I have consider my next steps career- had the pleasure of leading wise. I wanted to transition my students and helping to facilitate passion for experiential learning programs and experiences to a position that afforded that push people outside their me the chance to offer other comfort zones to embark on students such valuable, life- educational experiences that changing opportunities, and cannot be found in any textbook. help students develop important Every chance I have, I encourage skills, knowledge, and values students to study abroad, as it’s both inside and outside of a not only an important part of a traditional academic setting. résumé, but more fundamentally, This sharpened focus led me is often transformative. With to the professional field of everything that studying abroad international education, which has given me, I am eager to has become my passion. continue paying it forward in any way I can, and I’m thankful My first job back in the USA to Marist for helping me develop was for the American Institute and continue on this path. for Foreign Study (AIFS), where I managed their high school programs and worked closely with students from countries with significant Muslim populations. Photos: Sacco Matthew

11 Globetrotter MY JOURNEY TO SOUTH KOREA Photo: Kristen O’Brien–Seoul, South Korea O’Brien–Seoul, Photo: Kristen KRISTEN O’BRIEN ’14 If someone had told me four years ago that insights connected me to something I knew wonderful. We saw her often and always on I would spend a semester in South Korea, almost nothing about. weekends. We shared a love for music, and an I wouldn’t have believed them, and I don’t artistic background. We even had some similar know if I would have felt emotionally prepared. Preparing to go to Korea was, as cheesy as it habits. Her English improved as our Korean Studying abroad is throwing yourself into the sounds, an emotional roller coaster. At first, I also improved. I still can’t say I’m fluent, unknown and taking risks–something I never was exceedingly overwhelmed. We had been despite intensive three-hour classes every day. would have thought myself capable of doing. searching for our birth family for about a year Allison and I had hoped to stay for the summer before learning that the adoption agency and continue studying, but it wasn’t feasible. I remember feeling so afraid, the day my twin made contact with them. We would meet Nevertheless, we both want to become fluent. sister, Allison, and I were dropped off at JFK them in Korea. My dream is to communicate comfortably airport by our parents. I was about to start a with both my mother and older sister. new journey and part of me felt that I wasn’t We met the other program participants at the ready. I had waited all my life to make this airport in February. All were Americans except On return to the USA, I was happy to be home. journey, yet I had feelings of doubt. After we a couple of students from Canada and Vietnam. Our birth sister came to visit over the summer, boarded, saying farewell to everything that felt It was freezing cold when we arrived, and and that was fun. I miss Korea very much. safe and comfortable, I realized how much of a everyone was exhausted from the thirteen- One of my closest Korean-American friends risk I was taking. I was about to travel halfway hour time difference and jet lag. Orientation (whom I met on the program) and I talk about across the world where I would hear and learn kept us so busy for almost a month. From the Korean term 상사병 (sangsa byung) which a new language. I would meet family I had early morning to late at night we ran around roughly means “love sickness” or “symptoms.” never known, and have to adjust to a foreign the city, without cell phones, hanging out with The phrase is much more nuanced than the country and culture. Yet, in a way, I was going new friends. We were exhausted at the end translation. It means when you miss a person back home. Twenty-one years ago I made the of each day. I loved every moment of it, and or place so much that you become physically same journey, in the opposite direction. getting to know new, lifelong friends. ill. You can’t eat, sleep, or work. Your body aches along with your heart–a deep, sad pain. Allison and I were adopted from Seoul, South Allison and I met our mother and sister two Though none of us are actually ill, we feel a Korea, when we were four months old. We weeks after we arrived. We met them at the deep aching in our hearts, not only for the were given a better life when our birth mother adoption agency which was only two subway country, but for the friends and family we met realized she could not support us. Our father stops and a few minutes from our program there. My closest friends are in Colorado, had passed away, and she was left alone to at Yonsei University. We had a translator, which may as well be another country. We support our older sister and us as well. I had but our sister (who is seven years older than video chat and text all the time, but it’s not always been curious about Korea, but never us) spoke some words in English, and we the same. We all say, “I wish I could go back fully embraced my birth culture. Growing up spoke a little Korean. She had been studying and do it all over again.” on Long Island, I had little to no connection English so that we could communicate better. with my Asian heritage. It wasn’t until I met We went to dinner together and on parting, In a broader sense, however, I now feel some international students at Marist that I our mother said she hoped that we could complete, having learned about parts of my started to grow more curious. I began watching have a good relationship with our sister. Our life that I hadn’t known, and gained back some Korean TV shows and listening to K-Pop. mother worked long hours every day in a of what had always been missing. I am both take-out restaurant, so spending time with Korean and American, and I have come to My interest grew as I gained little bits and her during the semester was difficult. Being realize that I cannot be one without the other. pieces of Korean culture, and these cultural with our sister, however, was much easier, and

Globetrotter 12 New Place? Really, It s Quite Easy. Flynn Renate CC Photo: ’ PATRICK TOBIN ’17

Ever been in a situation where a group of newly of the select few chosen to be a “Buddy”–to personal questioning can get you pretty far. acquainted people blankly stare at each other? greet the new students and help them make Actually, that last one wouldn’t work. None of Well, this is where I found myself: a freshman friends. Weird, huh? these college-aged peopled wanted to get too in Florence, Italy, where I would spend my first personal; no one was sure if they had reached year of icebreakers, introductions, and fear I remember the day my guidance counselor (a that “level” yet. But I knew that if I calmed my of rejection. As I walked Florentine streets very pale woman with bleached blonde hair, nerves and made an effort, I would be able to like a newborn, mouth open, in awe of all the always dressed in black) spoke to us just before build new relationships. I decided to see how sights, my heart raced the Tour de France. As I the annual New Friends Lunch. She looked like rusty my skills had become. breathed in each detail of the Duomo, endless someone in an Audrey Hepburn movie. She jitters made me dance the Jitterbug. Asmy said, “Alright, Buddies! It’s your duty to make One night, a bunch of us went to play soccer pupils dilated from the shiny jewels along the sure that our new friends make a lot of new in one of the parks. At first, we just kicked the Ponte Vecchio, my bladder seemed to hold the friends!” Her voice chipped, chapped, and ball back and forth. Then, more people started entirety of the Arno River. As I conceptualized chirped the intense list of instructions for how to join and we changed the game. We had to the sheer size of the David in Piazza Vecchio, I to treat our new friends. As the newcomers kick the ball quickly and sprint to the person felt as though I pestered, pushed, and nearly entered the immensely decorated cafeteria– you kicked it to. Before anyone knew it, there pummeled myself to keep talking to people. with streamers, balloons, and welcome signs was a mess of American teenagers kicking and “Listen, if you do not put yourself out there, covering the walls–all of us, the Buddies, running around the small, quiet park. At one no one will want to be friends with you,” I stood waving and smiling as instructed. Our point I said, “Ohmigod, you guys, my stomach whispered to myself under the raspy ruckus new best friends were not smiling; their hurts from laughing so hard!” I knew from the of street performers as we arrived at Piazza di faces expressed sheer terror. Anxious energy smiles, laughter, and relief on everyone’s face Santa Croce. quickly squashed the positive, like the smell that we were in this together. Finally, the newly of moldy cream cheese overwhelming the acquainted had broken the silent stares and Wouldn’t your nerves make you nauseous aroma of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies. were able to connect. We were able to reach to the point of not eating breakfast if you I could not comprehend how anyone could be that level because of this game of soccer. The had just met the forty or so people who you so worried about coming to a new school. It experience of letting down my guard, coming were going to spend the next year of your seemed as easy as walking through the door together, and letting loose made me realize life with? This was how I felt the morning we and down the hallway. But these kids’ faces that I would find my place among these people travelled throughout the new and frightening told me otherwise. and any other people I would meet. It made city of Florence. New people and places–they me realize I would eventually find my place in made my stomach twist like a wet T-shirt, “Welcome, our new friends,” squawked the this city. I was going to find friends here. wringing out watery nerves. I did not know Dalmatian-colored guidance counselor. The these people; I did not know this place. My ceremony began with cookies and Kool-Aid– From that night on, everyone started to fear of the unknown was a nuclear meltdown every elementary school student’s dream. Our become more personal with everyone else. I and my HAZMAT suit didn’t make it through job was to go around and talk to all the new shared so many details about myself that I’m airport security. I’ve never really had to move kids. Like a pack of viciously friendly wolves sure some of my friends in Florence know me into a new situation before. Familiarity was we surrounded the frightened herd of sheep. nearly as well as my friends back home. I look my friend and always comforted me. These I locked eyes with a boy wearing glasses, a back at the first days of dread and despair and strange people, and certainly this strange Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt, and the laugh at how silly I was; all it took to make place, let loose the hounds of anxiety. I never nametag “Brandon.” I smiled. It was all over for friends was some small talk and a game of used to fear being rejected or not making Brandon; he would no longer be the friendless kick-sprint soccer. friends, but here I was now, fearing to breathe new kid. I went in for the kill. the same air as these people. Until I moved to Florence, I had no idea how “Normally,” I get along with people quite well. Brandon and the other new kids felt. Now, I From playing with everyone on the playground do. Looking back on my past experience as to saying “hey” in the hallways, I can be very a Buddy, I think I still possess some of the personable. In elementary school I was one skills: a friendly smile, small talk, and intense

13 Globetrotter J U M P ! Photo: MIP into the ADVENTURE! Asia Study Abroad Program in Business What will set you apart when you’re refer to the program as a “life-changing corn. This level of integration is what truly looking for a full-time job? What can you experience.” A defining feature of ASAP is sets ASAP apart, and is what will prepare do now, while you’re an undergraduate, that company visits are fully integrated into students to work and compete in the world to become competitive for a position that the curriculum; students will analyze each of international business. has an international component to the company they visit to learn its management job? What part of the world is experiencing and organizational structure, market ELIGIBILITY high economic growth accompanied by the position, marketing practices and strategy, Both Marist and non-Marist students opportunity for talented, informed people production mix, innovation strategy, stock may apply. Candidates must have a strong to be part of that growth? valuation, and long-term viability in the interest in international business and marketplace. intercultural management. They must also Welcome to Asia. Now how do you want to experience diverse Asian cultures, prepare yourself to take advantage of that ACADEMICS customs, lifestyles, and to develop a nuanced opportunity? Participants enroll in twelve to fifteen world view. International travel and foreign credits (four or five courses). Courses are language ability are not prerequisites, but The answer: Marist’s Asia Study Abroad three semester credit hours, and for the intellectual curiosity, personal maturity, and Program (ASAP). ASAP is designed for spring semester 2015 include: flexibility are. business majors and minors seeking unparalleled insight into the world of OO BUS 302 Organizational Behavior REQUIREMENTS international business through site visits, OO BUS 340 Marketing Principles Students must meet the following: examination of real-world business issues, OO BUS 319 Ethical Decision- reflective cultural experiences, and contact making in Business OO Good academic and judicial standing with businesses, cultures, and people of OO BUS 390 Entrepreneurship OO Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.50 each country visited. OO COM 470 Organizational Writing OO Sophomore-level standing or higher OO REST 209 World Religions OO Meet all course prerequisites SETTING OO Currently enrolled in a degree- In this traveling program, students will move An additional course may be offered, if granting institution with their cohort and professors between needed and feasible. OO Academic advisor approval multiple Asian countries over the course of the semester. Classes and activities EXCURSIONS GENERAL INFORMATION integrate local contexts so students can Imagine visiting General Electric to hear Interested students should visit the Web learn about the peoples and cultures of Asia senior executives discuss GE’s strategy for site at marist.edu/asap or contact Assistant while examining regional and international entering the rapidly expanding Chinese Coordinator James Morrow-Polio at james. business. Previous itineraries have included aviation market. Or meeting with the [email protected]. Enrollment is Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Director of Johnson & Johnson Thailand limited, and applicants are encouraged to Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam. to learn about J&J’s positioning in the Thai apply early. cosmetic and health care sector. Or sitting pROGRAM down with an entrepreneur in Hong Kong Please note that this program is offered in ASAP was a studyabroad.com rankings who will describe efforts to develop a spring semester only. winner in 2012, and alumni frequently market for biodegradable plastic made from

Globetrotter 14 ASAP: The Experience of a Lifetime! It was absolutely worth it. I would do the program again without hesitation. I took more out of it than I had ever anticipated. I learned to become detached from unimportant factors of life, abandon a ritual of living, and embrace the cultures that I was in. These all contributed to the greatest experience I have ever had. David L–Marist College

No Better Way to See Asia In order to succeed in business you need to be able to identify how you are different and how you are similar to the person you are dealing with (whether customer, supplier, employee, or boss). Once you do this you can then bridge the gap and achieve a successful outcome. There is no better classroom than Asia to learn and practice this skill. Timothy A–University of Dayton

Eye- and Mind-Opening Experience In Asia The world is bigger than a campus. QuTing Z–Marist College

ASAP Invigorated My Senses After this program I knew I wanted more. I spent two years abroad after college in another program where I worked a full-time job at an investment bank, all while taking classes to complete my MBA. The second part of the program brought me back to Southeast Asia (my favorite stop from the ASAP trip) where I finshed up my MBA classes full time in Bangkok. I quickly found myself in a great fast-paced job in Chicago that I would fully attribute to the ASAP program. Wenyan G–SUNY - Binghamton Photo: Wesley King–Hong Kong Wesley Photo:

15 Globetrotter Photo: Qu Ting Zheng ZHENG 13 Game Changer QU TING ’

Listening to the radio at work, Death Cab and tell them how ASAP is life-changing. it had really begun). Two months prior to for Cutie’s Soul Meets Body transported me Following a series of classroom presentations, graduation, I shifted the focus of my job search back to East and Southeast Asia. The lyrics of and helping with Marist’s Study Abroad from life insurance and annuities marketing to wonderment evoked memories of a summer Fair, Dean John Peters asked me to join the international higher education. spent in conference rooms, monasteries, Marist International Programs (MIP) team as and makeshift classrooms in airports, hotel a student assistant, which began a rewarding It has been a little over a year since my lobbies, and overnight trains. graduation, and four months since I began an internship with the education team at In 2011 I had the opportunity to participate in the British Council in New York City. Happily, Marist’s Asia Study Abroad Program (ASAP), I was recently offered (and have accepted) a a full semester program that offers the full-time position with the British Council as opportunity to gain unparalleled insights into education assistant. The British Council is the international business and cultures through a ASAP changed me cultural agent for the United Kingdom, and curriculum which includes visits to overseas my team serves as the official representative companies. for the UK education system in the US. We forever, like no represent and work with many universities During the final days of the program, director in the UK to increase their presence and and founder Dr. Wesley King warned us that other experience. recruiting efforts in the United States. As Asia changed us; when we get back home education assistant I will be supporting things will be the same, but different. Our development of the British Council’s presence family and friends will be the same, but at a variety of conferences, informational we will be different. I did not believe him, sessions, and other activities. The work is fast- because at that time I could not see how paced, collaborative, important, and highly ASAP had affected me. But midway through two years with MIP. I spent many hours enjoyable. my welcome-home dinner with family and interacting with prospective and returning friends, I realized that Dr. King was right; I had study abroad students, and these interactions I could not be happier about the places ASAP, left a part of myself in Asia while bringing back underscored for me the power of the overseas Marist International Programs, and Marist a brand new Qu. All I wanted to talk about experience. It was clear that study abroad, College have taken me in my young career– were the wonderful people and cultures that and the opportunity to live and travel in other even if it means editing handbooks and I encountered in my travels to China, Tibet, countries, was changing lives and enhancing counselor guides on a Friday night! I’m looking Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. students’ college experience. forward to continuing to apply my education, overseas experience, skills, and enthusiasm Desperate to hang onto the new me, and I realized that I wanted to help other students to to the international education field for many Asia, I volunteered to share my experiences take advantage of study abroad opportunities, years to come. with prospective Marist study abroaders so I decided to change my career path (before

Globetrotter 16 HANSARD SCHOLARS PROGRAMME Photo: CC With Singing Light NICHOLAS Bayer ’16

It’s 8:00 a.m. London time. I wake experience, this regular walk to and beer. And on top of that I still found up, put on my professional clothes from Westminster is what comes to time to explore London and the rest of and head to work. The Thames River mind. It was during this time that the UK! sparkles in the morning sun, a light I got to really live in the moment, breeze cooling my face as I stroll along overwhelmed by what my life had It was on one of my last walks from the South Bank. I stop at Costa Coffee become in a few short weeks. Not only Westminster to my flat in Waterloo to pick up my usual mocha and continue is London one of the most culturally when I realized that the surreal life I past the London Eye and across the and historically rich cities in the world, had been living would soon come to Westminster Bridge. Over the buzz of but it was my home–at nineteen years an end. I have traveled abroad twice double-decker buses zipping past, I old! before and each time I left feeling hear the sounds of a bagpipe floating disappointed that my trip would end through the air, and as I pass by, I toss As time went on, I became completely so soon. As I reflected on my time in a 20-pence coin into the player’s open immersed in British politics. My courses London, I knew that if I returned in the case. With a smile and a nod I turn at the London School of Economics future, my experience just wouldn’t my eyes towards Westminster and complemented my work for Scottish be the same. I mean, how could Big Ben’s clock tower. After scanning MP Thomas Docherty, and vice versa. I anyone match or recreate this amazing my badge, I type my password on engaged with Scottish citizens on both semester? I knew then that London had the keypad and head through the sides of the independence campaign not only given me an incredible study revolving doors into the heart of British and connected with politicians and abroad experience, but it had won a government. Westminster Palace is NGOs working to decrease corruption special place in my heart. But I was not quite a big place, but I was headed in Afghanistan. I watched David sad to be leaving. In fact, I was already right towards the House of Commons Cameron and Ed Milliband go head to excited to return and I hadn’t even left Chamber. At the last chance, I turned head during Prime Minister’s Questions yet! After living and working in London, into the whip’s hallway and up a flight and enjoyed the music of MP4–the immersed in the everyday life of a true of stairs to my Member of Parliament’s only non-partisan, Parliamentary rock Londoner, it has become a part of me. office. It was time to start my day. band, made up of four British Members I will take those experiences and build of Parliament. I traveled to the snowy upon them. For some, London is just a This was my routine for ten weeks mountains of Norway and to the rolling point on a map. For me it is home. during the spring of 2014. When asked hills of Ireland. I felt the warm breezes about my favorite moment during of Spain and reveled at the taste of real my Hansard Scholars Programme French bread and authentic German

17 Globetrotter H U J A M B O ! I had too long envisioned the silhouettes of giraffes and acacia trees against the backdrop of a sunset over the Serengeti to be swayed by suggestions from peers such as “You should go to Australia instead.”

SIT Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology is a rather non-traditional study abroad program. We had many classes, but they were not all held in traditional classrooms. Our learning environment was integrative, with seminars and lectures in cities, towns, and the countryside. We held debates on the politics of a proposal to lay an asphalt road through the Serengeti that could potentially interfere with wildebeest migration. We learned about the evolution of Homo sapiens on the rim of Olduvai Gorge, where the first humanoid footprints were found. We embarked on safari with expert ecologists and conservationists, who helped us examine wildlife up close. Quite close.

I arrived at Kilimanjaro National Airport in Arusha, Tanzania, at 10 p.m. local time. The other people in my group were very easy to spot. We all wore backpacks bigger than we were (due to camping gear and other items we were instructed to bring). Perhaps our expressions of enthusiastic confusion were even more of a give-away. We were approached by a man who introduced himself Finally. as Baba Jack, the program director. He handed each of us a liter of water with an order to After two years of dogged determination, my finish it by the time we reached our campsite. parents agreed. I got the “OK” to study abroad. Memories of the drive to Ndarakwai Ranch As with most students about to embark on (our campsite for the first few days) are quite such an exciting experience, I quickly started vivid—two hours down a bumpy dirt road that sharing the news with anyone who would bisected a massive field of sunflowers. We listen. Almost everyone I told responded with set up our tents in the dark and ate dinner the same question: “So where in Europe are by lantern light, at 1 a.m. We wondered how you going?” When I replied, “Actually, I’m we were ever going to remember everyone’s going to Africa,” the response was predictable. names—the first of many challenges to come. “Africa? What? Like, South Africa?” “Why would you ever want to go there?,” “But it’s I experienced my first bout of homesickness so...primitive...,”“Where the heck is Tanzania? after a week, when I was approached byan I’ve never even heard of it.” elderly woman on the street, begging for money in Kiswahili. On that day I realized how Although there are many draws to Europe, few people I would be able to communicate I did not feel that a study abroad experience with for the next four months. Although there provided the best fit for my objectives to phrases I memorized early on, such as “kila study and work in wildlife conservation and as wakati ni wakati wa chai” (every timeis such, there was simply no alternative to Africa. teatime) and “poa ka chizi, kama ndizi kwenya

Photo: CC Daniel KJ Globetrotter 18 H U J A M B O ! friji” (I’m cool like a banana in the fridge) to adjust the research methods I had initially could elicit a laugh every now and then, they proposed after I arrived at my research site weren’t too helpful when we had to ask for and better understood the local resources. I directions or order food—linguistic skills that was ultimately successful in MacGyvering my took a bit longer to develop (which we did; way through, although I gained a (justified) studying Kiswahili is a program requirement!). fear of sea urchins in the process.

A touch of homesickness struck again when One of our first investigations of wildlife I moved into my first homestay and felt the conservation included a thrilling night drive pressure of having to assimilate not only to a in a Land Rover through the nature preserve culture I knew almost nothing about, but to a at Ndarakwai, on which I was greeted by the family of total strangers. Luckily, my homestay glowing red eyes of bush babies, casually brothers spoke nearly fluent English. The hanging out in surrounding trees. On that trip CHRISTINE HEALY ’14 homestay really brought out differences in I saw the first of many giraffes. The incredible customs. My mama did not approve of the experiences I had on this program didn’t end way I washed my clothes, the way I washed there. I went for a swim in the bathtub-warm I value the experience for how it changed myself, or even the way I cut vegetables. But waters of the Indian Ocean, floating above me. Not only did I learn a great deal about after three weeks in the house, it began to feel bioluminescent algae, gazing up at the Milky wildlife conservation, but I was able to focus like home, and I was truly sad to leave. I still Way, in its apparent entirety. I shared my love on personal development as well. I have think about my family, and miss them often. of Harry Potter with my homestay brothers, always been a perfectionist and that has Erick and Emmanuel, and Mama taught me sometimes prevented me from making the Toward the end of the program, I was required to bake cake over a campfire. I came within most of situations. This has kept me from to design and carry out an independent four feet of wild lions in Ngorongoro Crater, taking risks, for fear of failure. Tanzania taught research project. I chose to focus on and witnessed a group of mongoose chase a me that not only is perfection impossible, it is biodiversity in the intertidal coral reef off raptor up a tree, while attempting to rescue also undesirable. Making mistakes is how we the remote coastal village of Ushongo. I had one of their kin. I watched the sunrise from learn. Mistakes can, and frequently do, result the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest in some of our fondest memories and most freestanding mountain in the world, and important learning experiences. Mistakes help saw it set over the plains of the Serengeti. It to shape our character. was just as I had always dreamed. I climbed trees and waterfalls in the rainforest, and Often, it seems, people “write off” Africa. They swung on lianas, Tarzan style. I gained a great hear the name and subconsciously associate appreciation for things like towels, ice cubes, it with AIDS, genocide, political corruption, and cheese—things I hadn’t thought twice poverty, disease, child mortality, and lack about before the trip. Most importantly, I of modern-day conveniences. The African met some of the most interesting, genuine, continent is massive, and extraordinarily and amazing people that I have ever had the diverse. It cannot be defined by such pleasure of knowing. generalizations. I equate Africa not only with friendship, but also confidence, acceptance, I never became fully adept at bucket natural beauty, hard work, and challenges that showering and my clothes were rarely clean. can be met and overcome. I let my friend chop off several inches of my hair by candlelight in our tent in the Serengeti Tanzania provided me with some of the (to prepare for the heat of Ushongo), and greatest experiences of my life. I had more while she did a pretty good job, it was rather recognizable moments of bliss (those times lopsided. None of us wore makeup, and for when, if you could choose anywhere in the a while after my stay on the coast, my skin world you could be, you would be exactly resembled the exoskeleton of a lobster. The where you are) in those four months than I point, however, is that no one, including me, have had at any other time. cared about these things. The relationships formed were real and uninfluenced by the My semester in Tanzania was one of the material culture of the Western world. For me, best decisions I’ve ever made, and I can’t the superficial concerns that we have in the recommend studying abroad in Africa enough. States seemed to melt away. It may not be as glamorous as Europe, but it is, in every way, worth it. I loved my experience in Tanzania for all of the adventures that I was fortunate to have Hujambo Africa! Hello Africa! Photos: Christine Healy and the stories I can share with others, but

19 Globetrotter Photo: Christine Healy–Tanzania

Photo: Nicholas Bayer–London, England

Photo: Erica Nishimoto–At the Airport

Photo: Christine Healy–Tanzania

Photo: Erika Lopez–Stonehenge, England

Photo: Nicholas Bayer–London, England

Globetrotter 20 Photo: Aidan O’Shea–Australia Photo: Kristal Seidita–Sydney, Australia

Photo: Majay Donzo–Morocco

Photo: Erika Lopez–Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Photo: Meghan Deasy–Athens, Greece

Photo: Carey Jamilkowski Photo: Erica Nishimoto, Japan

Photo: Erika Lopez–Florence, Italy

Photo: James (Jimmie) White–London, England

Photo: Kathryn Chmielewski–Morocco

Photo: Carey Jamilkowski–Amalfi, Italy

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Photo: Erica Nishimoto–Tokyo, Japan There’s No Place Like Dublin Photos: Snyder–Ireland Jenna JENNA SNYDER ’15 It is hard to believe that a year has passed experiences of my entire life. I learned so feet and the banks of the River Liffey will since I walked the cobblestone streets of much about acknowledging differences, meet again someday. I look forward to the Temple Bar, marveled at the beauty of the and embracing changes. There is so much day that I can introduce my own children Trinity College campus, took a ride on that can be learned from another culture. to the city that I so proudly call my second a Dublin bus, or attempted to dry rain- The Irish taught me how to use and detect home. soaked clothing. Being back in the USA sarcasm, worry less often, drink more tea, is very comforting; I certainly missed the appreciate the essence of time, and how to My advice to prospective study abroad perks of small-town life, and the happiness pour the perfect pint of Guinness. students would mimic the Nike slogan: that comes with daily sunlight. But now, just do it. It is next to impossible to regret throughout the course of my day, no Now it is time to complete my college career living in a foreign country during your matter where I am or what I am doing, while carrying Ireland’s lessons and my college years. Another bit of advice (which five words cross my mind more then ever: memories. I plan to graduate from Marist I disregarded): four months really is too there’s no place like Dublin. with degrees in finance and economics short. Dublin stole my heart in four days and then secure a career in a Manhattan and if I could go back and do it all again, I I miss the friendly people, the delicious firm. Although a lot can change in a year would stay for the entire year. Take it from cuisine, strolls along the banks of the and I’m not certain where my degrees will me: there’s no place like Dublin. River Liffey, and the lively Irish music take me, I am certain about one thing: my that constantly fills the streets. I miss everything about the most populated city of the Emerald Isle. It was very humbling to return to New York, but all the memories I created during my semester as a Trinity College student make my heart drift back to Dublin.

Studying abroad has been one of the most rewarding and certainly most unforgettable

Globetrotter 22 Photo: Armenter–Germany Caterina

Reutlingen University, School of Management CATERINA ARMENTER ’14

Perhaps the logical thing for me to have done covered town (with solar panels on practically magic of social media. I hope to one day visit was to spend my study abroad semester in every rooftop) cheered me. Reutlingen them in their respective countries. Barcelona, Spain, where I have family and is twenty miles from the nearest airport, speak the language. Choosing a country for in the Baden Wurttemberg region. Most At Reutlingen I began to understand why study abroad is more difficult than one might Germans speak English—further motivation Germany is an economic world leader: teaching assume, considering all of the wonderful for me to learn their language, culture, and is rigorous, focused, and very structured. places Marist offers. Thanks to the help and history. Reutlingen’s prestigious ESB Business Although they work hard, they also know support of the School of Management and School offers rigorous courses, with inspiring how to play hard (just as we do at Marist). Marist International Programs, I decided the professors who challenge students to strive My experiences taught me that Germans look University of Reutlingen in Germany offered for excellence. ahead to the future; they are not motivated the best fit with my goals. only by a quick return on investment, but I was awed by the diversity of students at show great concern for climate change, a I was excited by the prospect of traveling to Reutlingen University. They came from around clean environment, innovation, affordable an unknown culture, learning a new language, the world to study fashion, engineering, education, and a healthy lifestyle. I learned and being the first participant in Marist’s new chemistry, computer science, and other areas to incorporate into my daily routine the time exchange program with Reutlingen University. in addition to business. I enrolled in three management and organizational skills I found As a business student aware of and impacted required business courses which were taught embedded in German culture. by the global economic crisis, I realized that in English. I also took an intensive German Germany is a leader in world finance, so I was language course. One of my business course In choosing a study abroad country and interested in learning more about German projects had me teamed with two other program, I highly recommend leaving your business systems and their approach to students—one from Kazakhstan and the other comfort zone to experience both thrills and sustainability. from Vietnam. We wrote a paper on General fears. The goals are to expand one’s horizons, Motors and its business approach in Russia. develop independence, and maturity. Study I arrived at Reutlingen University a month abroad takes one far from the watchful eyes before my courses were to begin and four days The workload kept me quite busy, yet I found of parents, yet still mindful of their loving prior to my twenty-first birthday. A German time for hiking, rock climbing, and traveling guidance. I not only enhanced my business student, whom I had contacted through the to nearby countries. Germany has a very education, but gained so much more! Thank school, kindly met me at the bus stop, and affordable and accessible transportation you, Marist College and Reutlingen University, while helping me move into my dorm asked system, with special discounts for students. for the many memorable, life-changing, and me a million questions about life in New York. I traveled the surrounding areas with the empowering experiences. The campus was fairly empty, as was the town. students I met abroad, and I am happy to It was eerie, but the beauty of the snow- continue my friendship with them through the 23 Globetrotter Photo: Eury Fabian–Spain Experience Madrid! Be Madrid! EURY FABIAN ’16 Why Madrid? Madrid, like no other place, many ways: some speak their thoughts, crystal building near Puerta del Sol in the city stirred in me an immense curiosity to explore others write, and there are some who want center. It offers everything from desserts, to the unknown. Picture this: A sunny morning, a calm place for quiet thought. The Temple seafood, to delicious paella. Every Wednesday birds chirping, people going to work, the of Debod is an authentic Egyptian temple night after classes my friends and I would sun shines through your window. A lively from the 2nd century AD, in the middle of enjoy some frozen yogurt. The time we spent afternoon, everyone eats, laughs, and indulges Madrid. This acclaimed romantic site delights here, in storytelling sessions, made me feel at themselves in the siesta. Night comes and with outstanding sunsets. In addition to the home. El Rastro is a famous local market, open Madrid transforms seven days a week, with historical aspects, it is without doubt a place every Sunday morning, where the streets are every place full of people. They say New York for personal escape from the everyday routine. closed to traffic and people sell all types of City never sleeps. Well, Madrid also never things, old and new. sleeps: everyone is out and about, eating Gran Via is Madrid’s great avenue. Whether or tapas, enjoying a Flamenco show, or simply not you like to shop, it is always interesting to It’s bittersweet to think about these genuinely strolling the Gran Via or Puerta del Sol. There walk along this avenue and look at the lavishly special places, and these are only a few of the are seemingly endless places in Madrid, some decorated rooftops of impressive buildings. wonderful places Madrid has to offer. Madrid of which have become my sanctuaries. They You will find a breathtaking view of the city in has something for everyone’s taste, and it offered me more than what I expected before the Circulo de Bellas Artes, a multidisciplinary has given me the opportunity to expand my deciding to come to Spain. Monuments, center with a beautiful terrace where a knowledge, establish heartfelt connections, museums, and parks are some of the places visit with friends can lead to an unexpected be my eccentric self, and enjoy a page of the in Madrid where one can reflect, explore, experience. wonderful book that is the world. admire, and create lifelong memories. If you like art, but don’t understand it, Madrid Moments come when you want to disconnect can teach you how to appreciate it. The from the mundane. Reflection comes in Prado Museum has a stunning ratio of great The Marist in Madrid program enjoys paintings to total collection. The National a most enthusiastic alumni base, as Museum of Art Reina Sofia is the home of Eury’s article above demonstrates. In the Picasso’s Guernica and other contemporary following essay (in both a Spanish and masterpieces. My favorite is the Joaquin English version), on-site Resident Director Sorolla museum, owing to how personal it is, Dr. Isabel Carrasco offers insight into the considering that the museum was Sorolla’s Madrid program by interviewing longtime home and studio. Museums are ideal places Madrid program host mom Carmina; and to admire pieces that are rich in history. Morgan Kelly describes her experiences on the Madrid program’s Morocco The Buen Retiro Park is Spain’s version of New excursion. York City’s Central Park. It is a perfect place to exercise, play, or simply enjoy the park’s Applicants for the Madrid program need at beautiful Crystal Palace. Imagine a sunny least two semesters of Spanish at the time afternoon by the man-made lake enjoying a of admission. Coursework is primarily in book you can’t put down, or a picnic near the Spanish, with a limited number of courses beautiful rose gardens. available in English to help students stay on track for graduation. There are several markets in Madrid featuring clothing, antiques, and of course food. My favorite is Mercado de San Miguel, a one-floor

Globetrotter 24 MARIST EN MADRID DR. ISABEL CaRRASCO Carmina: Madre Anfitriona DIRECTOR RESIDENTE

Carmina abre la puerta y me saluda con Hoy como con Carmina pero esto no terminó siendo profesor de inglés. Unos una gran sonrisa. Sus bienvenidas siempre es una mera comida de trabajo. Lo años después, Alejandro también ha son sinceras. El interior está impregnado que sea que ella signifique-una buena enviado a su hija a estudiar EEUU. de un aroma a deliciosa comida exótica: vieja amiga, consejera, o abuela-hoy “He preparado moussaka. Espero que ha cocinado para mí y a mí me encanta Como espero que haya quedado claro te guste la comida griega,” dice. “Sí, me su compañía. Estamos de celebración: en este breve artículo, el impacto del encanta”- respondo. El salón recuerda a este año hace veinticinco que Carmina programa de Marist College en Madrid no esos de las revistas en los que los famosos aloja a estudiantes de Marist College del se limita a los estudiantes que emprenden presumen de sus casas como palacios. Sin programa de Madrid. Ella forma parte el viaje. La historia de Carmina es un embargo, el hogar de Carmina no está de la historia del programa: estaba aquí ejemplo que ilustra el impacto sobre los hecho para presumir. En él se acumulan las antes que yo y que todos nosotros. No locales también. Hoy doy la enhorabuena

antigüedades y el arte adquirido a lo largo tengo palabras para expresar la suerte y las gracias a todos los estudiantes que de los años: vigas mudéjares de madera que tenemos de tener una anfitriona han tenido la oportunidad de participar rescatadas de la demolición de una casa como ella. Ella no sabe cómo expresar lo en la historia de Carmina y que, por lo medieval en Toledo, grabados antiguos, importante que fue para ella abrazar la tanto, han escrito una línea en la biografía lámparas de pergamino caligrafiadas oportunidad de tener compañía -la excusa de esta heroína anónima. También doy por un familiar francés, y un tapiz indio para levantarse, cocinar y mantener la enhorabuena y las gracias a Carmina cubriendo una pared. Se trata de piezas su casa limpia y bonita. Las familias de Alonso por esos 25 años de dedicación a que destilan vida, que comprenden el acogida siempre tienen razones íntimas los estudiantes de Marist, con el deseo de santuario personal de Carmina y que para terminar alojando estudiantes que sean muchos más. reciben calurosamente a sus invitados. Es estadounidenses. En el caso de Carmina, cierto aquello de que las casas hablan de su marido le había dejado después de una El programa de Marist College en Madrid sus dueños. larga enfermedad y ella se quedó sola con continúa promoviendo las conexiones su hijo Alejandro, un joven en el momento personales para crear otras historias Carmina nació en Toledo. Se casó con de tomar decisiones en la vida y dejar la sencillas pero inspiradoras como la de un hombre que amaba las antigüedades casa familiar. Carmina estaba destrozada. Carmina. ¡Espero con alegría al próximo y con el que viajó por el mundo durante Entonces, conoció a la antigua directora grupo, fresco, con ganas y preparado para años. Su hermano se casó con una del programa en Madrid y fue punto de vivir nuevas aventuras y experiencias! francesa, de ahí la conexión personal de inflexión en sus vidas que abrió una nueva Carmina con el país vecino del norte. Esta puerta a las experiencias internacionales casa expresa que su moradora es una e interculturales. De hecho, después persona de mente abierta, una ciudadana de disfrutar de ser hermano de acogida del mundo que disfruta aprendiendo de durante un tiempo, el hijo de Carmina, otras culturas. Alejandro, finalmente estudió en EEUU y

25 Globetrotter MARIST IN MADRID DR. ISABEL CaRRASCO Carmina: Host Mom RESIDENT DIRECTOR

Carmina opens her door and greets me I´m having lunch at Carmina´s today but sent his daughter to study in the USA. with a big smile. Her welcomes are always this is not just a business lunch. Whatever genuine. she is to me–good old friend, respected As I hope I’ve made clear in this short advisor, grandmother–she cooked for article, the impact that Marist has Inside, there is an aroma of delicious, me, and I love her company. We are through study abroad is not limited to the exotic food. “I prepared moussaka, hope celebrating: this year makes 25 years American students who travel. Carmina´s you like Greek food,” she says. Yes, I do. that Carmina has been hosting Marist story, as one example, illustrates the The living room looks like something in College study abroad students. She is impact study abroad can have on the local a flashy tabloid where celebrities boast part of the program’s history. She was people as well. I congratulate, and thank, about their palace-like houses. But here before me, before all of us. I cannot all the students who had the opportunity

Carmina´s home is not meant for boasting. express how grateful we are to have such to participate in Carmina´s story, and who It is full of accumulated antiquities and a great host mom. She cannot express have therefore “written a line” in the art, gathered over years: wood mudéjar how important it was for her to embrace biography of this heretofore anonymous beams rescued from a demolished the opportunity for company–a reason to heroine. And congratulations and thank medieval house in Toledo, old engravings, wake up, cook, and keep her home clean you to Carmina for 25 years of dedication velum leather lamps with calligraphies by and beautiful. Host families always have to Marist students, with wishes for many a French relative, and Indian tapestries personal, intimate reasons for hosting US more! covering the walls. They are pieces which students. Carmina´s husband had passed have life, embody her personal sanctuary, away after a long illness, and she was The Marist in Madrid program continues to and are meant to warmly receive guests. alone with her son, Alejandro, a teenager enhance person-to-person connections, Houses truly speak about their owners. just about to make his own decisions in and to generate simple, inspiring stories life and leave home. She was devastated. for us all. I look forward to welcoming Carmina was born in Toledo. She married Then she met the former Marist resident the next group of Marist students, fresh a man who loved antiquities, and they director in Madrid. It was a life–changer off the plane and ready for their own travelled the world together for years. for her family, as this opened a new door journeys and new experiences. Her brother married a French woman, to international and intercultural sharing hence Carmina´s personal connection and experiences. After enjoying being to the neighbor in the north. Her home host brother to many Marist study abroad expresses that its inhabitant is an open- students, Alejandro eventually studied in minded citizen of the world who loves the USA and is now a professor of English! learning from other cultures. And now years later, Alejandro has also

Globetrotter 26 MOROCCO

Adventure Photo: Morgan Kelly–Morocco MORGAN KELLY ’14

I have never had a more surreal immense. We stepped off the bus and to understand “need versus desire” and experience than my trip to the Moroccan were led into a room of the tour guides’ “want versus have.” I learned that you do countryside while participating in the home. Nothing more than a rug, table, not need the latest and greatest, most Marist in Madrid program. While the and walls lined with cushioned benches highly technical telephone on the market excursion to Morocco is optional, and I filled the room. As we removed our to make you happy. People who live their was initially wary, this felt too good an shoes (customary in Moroccan culture), lives with much less can be far more opportunity to pass up. I thought, “Hey, the reality that I would be living here happy, and better off. if I’m already paying for it, I might as for the next three days set in. We were well give it a shot–a four-day trip to an separated into pairs and selected to go My other realization had a religious basis. African country that I may never have the with one of our host siblings. My host I found that the girls we interacted with chance to visit again.” Marist in Madrid’s sister lived in a cement house of about were living their lives in accordance with Morocco excursion totally enhanced my four rooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom their religion, based on teachings of the study abroad experience. with a squat toilet (hole in the ground) Quran. They didn’t go to a mall to hang and a bin of water. It was overwhelming. out; they met up at the one mosque in In the city of Marrakesh, the people live Tears welled up in my eyes as we entered the town. I have always felt that religion a decent life. They have the hotels and our bedroom, consisting of a bench lining was more torture than joy. After this trip churches that a typical urban area would three of the four walls, a few pillows I want to be more connected to my own have, but it is a long way from the city (fabric wrapped around a small piece of religion. I may not be as devout as they life a New Yorker may know. We spent foam), and cement. Most of the rooms are, but the truth and honesty in their one night in the city in a quaint hotel were similarly furnished, although our beliefs has made me want to renew my room furnished with three cots, a small host sister had a few more adornments commitment. bathroom, and an eleven-inch television. in hers. Our host sister was proud of Nothing too fancy, but somewhat her home. This was her house, this was I have to thank the Marist in Madrid “familiar.” As I was soon to learn, the normal. It was where she and her mother program for showing me this part of Marrakesh hotel would be quite different lived. I was way out of my comfort zone. the world, and for allowing me to see from my next experience, where we Holding back my tears was difficult, but it through a “different set of eyes.” My were to live for the following three days. I figured it would be best to share my experiences in Morocco had a profound, An hour-long bus ride brought us to emotions with my director. I missed life-changing effect upon my soul. Amizmiz, a secluded little town near the my phone. I missed the Internet. But mountains in southern Morocco. somehow, from that, I found myself. Like night and day, the differences I never imagined that in this small between Marrakesh and Amizmiz were outskirt town in Morocco I would begin

27 Globetrotter ALEX BERUBE ’14 It takes over twenty-four hours to get fortunate you are to study in what’s called there. It has the deadliest animals on The Lucky Country. Earth. It’s all the way across the world. There are tons of excuses not to go to Australians know how to enjoy life in Australia, but none are good enough; their own backyard. I rode a camel excuses and fears are limitations you put through the Outback, hiked through on yourself in order to justify remaining in the oldest forest in the world, climbed your comfort zone. The great thing about to the top of the Mt. Kosciuszko (one of Australia is that there’s no such thing as the Seven Summits), and even sat on a a comfort zone–in fact, you forget about beach as hundreds of tiny penguins ran it as soon as you step off the plane. Any by. Each of these adventures wasn’t in limiting traces of your comfort zone that a separate country–all were in Oz. Even remain will certainly disappear when you the cities I explored had unique feels, see how welcoming the people are, and from Bostonian Melbourne, Cali-like Gold how beautiful Oz is. Coast, the Wild-Wild-West of Dubbo, to Sydney, which is like a cleaner, modern The mates you make in Australia are the NYC. There’s absolutely no shortage of hardest thing to leave behind, but the things to do in Australia. It’s more than best reason to go. I spent five months just a country filled with sand, strange traveling every corner of Australia, from animals, and people with funny accents. a small country town named Orange, to the capital cities Brisbane, Adelaide, and In a country nearly the size of America, Canberra, and the people I traveled with it has one-tenth the people. They’re a most were not my American friends, but close-knit group, but there’s no worries of Aussies. Their love for life and upbeat people judging you as a “silly American.” demeanor make every day unique. There’s barely any cultural or language They’re always keen to explore, because barrier, as they typically like the same in the words of a third-year who had seen things Americans do and speak the same Americans come and go, “You Americans language, but with killer slang added in. make us realize how good we have it. Every term you come over and make life One of the biggest gripes I heard from exciting and give us a reason to explore some friends who studied abroad is that our own country. Because you’re excited they didn’t get to know the locals enough about it, we are too.” For those of you because they stuck with the Marist crowd, who take the chance, you’ll realize how or that they didn’t explore the country in

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Photos: Alex Berube–Australia YOUNG MICHELANGELO’S FLORENCE: Teaching the First Year Seminar in Italy

As I looked across the tiny In the course, we would learn week, one of those meetings was their hunt for the traitorous subterranean room crowded what the city was like when, like almost always a visit somewhere Michelangelo began. Cleverly, he with students, I could see that, our freshmen, Michelangelo first in the city. For example, two days hid where they never would have like me, they were all smiling and arrived as a young person in the after we discussed Savonarola’s expected: underneath their own amazed. We were in the midst of birthplace of the Renaissance. sermon in class, we met at his tombs. Historians knew about an unforgettable experience that I loved the coincidence that monastery, San Marco. At San this hiding place and its drawings could happen only in Florence. our students would study at Marco we went into his private from Michelangelo’s letters but our partner Lorenzo de’ Medici monastic cells and saw the desk it remained undiscovered for Led by world-renowned restorer Institute (LdM) and Michelangelo where he wrote the sermon. We centuries. Our guide, Professor Professor Lorenzo Casamenti, was educated in the palace of also visited the other monks’ Casamenti, today head of the we had walked past the Medici Lorenzo de’ Medici himself. cells decorated by Fra Angelico’s Restoration program at LdM, was tombs carved by Michelangelo beautiful frescoes. Whenever we among the team that discovered into what appeared to be a The seminar and my application met in our classroom (a seminar and restored it in 1975. storage closet. Lifting an old trap to teach in Florence were room decorated with wall and door on the floor, Casamenti led approved in March 2013. Late ceiling frescoes), I was amazed, Amazingly, this was not the us down narrow stairs into an in August, the students, Marist though I shouldn’t have been, only extraordinary visit our underground hidden chamber Italy staff, and I all landed in at how much easier it was for class had that semester. Just few have ever seen. Flipping Florence and the course began. the students to recall art they a few days later, we were in on the lights, we got our first Besides Michelangelo’s life and had seen in person compared Rome on an overnight trip look at the walls, covered with art, we studied his times–and to art projected in a classroom. organized by Marist Italy staff. secret drawings by Michelangelo. what times!–one of the greatest Students in the course were also While our course focused on flowerings of culture in human amazed that the frescoes in the Florence, how could we ignore How had we all gotten here? history. Rather than reading classroom were actually restored Rome, home of so many of Why were we so lucky? textbooks or a biography, we by Marist students, under the Michelangelo’s greatest works? read the same Florentine authors tutelage of Professor Casamenti. For years now, friends and that Michelangelo would have At the Vatican, we were promised colleagues who knew of my work read himself: selections from We saw a special exhibition rare access because of Marist’s with our Florence branch campus Dante’s Inferno, Boccaccio’s of Boccaccio’s personal book and LdM’s special association asked me why I had never taught description in The Decameron collection highlighted with his with the Vatican Museums and there. I’d certainly thought of the plague in Florence, a handwritten notes and drawings because arrangements were about it, but it is no small thing fiery sermon by Savonarola, and in the Laurentian Library–a being made by a student intern to leave your family, friends, Machiavelli’s The Prince. We also stunning landmark of humanism– at the Vatican from our master’s and colleagues and relocate to read and discussed Leonardo’s designed by Michelangelo. It program in museum studies. I another country (even if it is one letter to the Duke of Milan and didn’t hurt that it was only a didn’t know precisely what this you are familiar with and love). Michelangelo’s correspondence few steps from our classroom access would be but our guide, However, when Marist College with Pope Julius. In addition, in the center of Florence. Romina Cometti (an employee decided on a new Core/Liberal we utilized new technologies to of the Vatican’s restoration Studies program that included enrich our study of Michelangelo The Medici Chapel, like the library, department) told me to be sure a freshman seminar, I became and Florence. As a team project, is attached to the Church of San that our students arrived at excited by an idea. The name students created customized Lorenzo–which brings me back to the Vatican Museums entrance for the course was the first thing and interactive Google maps our visit to Michelangelo’s secret the moment it opened. Early that jumped into my mind–Young of the city in 1500 and the final lair. In class, we learned about a the next morning, she met us Michelangelo’s Florence–a course result was an interactive, multi- revolt in Florence that expelled at the front doors and then that would be a natural way layered, online timeline of his life. the Medici from Florence escorted us through a series of to introduce Marist freshmen and established a republic. many rooms and back doors, from our Freshman Florence Our course embraced the Courageously, Michelangelo down a staircase, and through Experience (FFE) and Florence- Florence branch campus’s sided with the republican forces one last door. Pushing it open, based four-year bachelor’s concept of “the city as classroom.” over his old patrons. When we found ourselves nearly degree programs to the city. While the class met two days a the Medici regained power, alone in the Sistine Chapel.

Globetrotter 30 Photo: CC Renate Flynn Renate CC Photo:

YOUNG MICHELANGELO’S FLORENCE: Teaching the First Year Seminar in Italy PROF. RICHARD LEWIS

Normally, the Chapel is a Saint Peter’s without waiting on madhouse, packed shoulder to any lines and see Michelangelo’s shoulder with tourists craning Pieta, his first masterpiece. But their necks upward, your ears before we entered, I just wanted filled with the roar of hundreds to take in the experience. I of people murmuring and looked at the students and saw guards yelling “Silence!” and again what I had seen below “No talking!” But that morning, the Medici Chapel: happy and it was a peaceful sanctuary that dazed faces, aware that we seemed to me much, much larger were in the midst of another and impressive than ever before. once-in-a-lifetime experience. There were perhaps ten other Two in the same week! people in the room, including the guards. As an employee, It is a bit strange in a story Romina was also able to talk to about teaching in Florence that us, answer questions, and walk I haven’t mentioned any of the us around freely. By the time other wonderful benefits: the we left, just as the crowds of apartment with a terrace I shared tourists began to enter, we had with my wife, the delicious meals, been there, not the usual fifteen the espresso, and the colleagues, minutes, but for over an hour. waiters, and shopkeepers who became our friends. All parts If that was not special enough, of a lifestyle I truly miss. I am Romina then took us through very thankful to have had this another series of doors (guards extraordinary opportunity and nodding to her as we passed) to grateful for the kindness and find ourselves suddenly out in cooperation of the Marist Italy the open air walking the inner staff who made the several streets of the Vatican. We saw educational excursions (including the exterior walls of the Sistine the Castello di Verrazano winery Chapel, designed as a fortress, in Greve in Chianti) and so much its thick ramparts cut with more possible. But as time passes, narrow slits near their top, not I return in my memory to the to let in light but in case archers looks on the faces of my students were needed to defend it. We as we walked up a back flight of walked behind the towering marble stairs into Saint Peter’s. walls of Saint Peter’s. To our And my thought, just before right, we could see the modest we entered the magnificent apartment building where Pope cathedral together: “What Francis lives. At its entrance, a a great day to be a teacher.” Swiss guard was standing next to a man in a suit having a smoke.

Here we were walking the surprisingly ordinary streets of an extraordinary place, where no tourists are allowed, only priests, nuns, and church officials. We would soon enter Photo: Wikipedia

31 Globetrotter WHAT’S COOKING? JESSE Scannapieco ’15 Photo: MIP

It’s a very small world after all, and until I arrived in Florence, Italy I did not entirely understand this. Most people do not realize how easy it is to see the world; unfortunately, many will not travel because of this. Studying abroad was the best decision I ever made. It opened my eyes to travel and all of its wonderful benefits.

When I was accepted to Marist, I knew I would be studying in Italy my junior year. I was very impressed with the programs Marist offers, and a lot of time went into thinking about where in Italy I should spend my abroad semester. Because Florence was the popular choice of many of my classmates, I was somewhat apprehensive that I would not meet anyone new on the program. However, like most life circumstances, it is what you make of it. I chose Florence and resolved to meet new people and build new contacts (which I did) despite the fact that so many people I knew were also heading there. Thus my best advice for studying abroad: go and immerse yourself in the culture about which you are most excited to learn, do not make a decision based on what everyone else is doing, and strive to have your own experience.

Two of my favorite college courses (thus Photo: Scannapieco–Italy Jesse far) were in Florence at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute (LdM): Wine Business diet, and worked together to plan and do and more to discover, day or night, and Marketing with Professor Dario prepare amazing four-course meals. within the city. With an abundance of Parenti, and Topics in Nutrition with Both of these classes helped me to art, history, and culture, you can learn Professor Marco Cinotti. Professor better understand Italian culture and something new every day. Florentines Parenti taught us the entire process appreciate lifestyle differences in Italy. are very proud of their city and willing of bringing a bottle of wine to table. to answer questions; I used this to my Class trips to a local winery and historic What I miss most about Florence is just advantage. vineyard in Tuscany taught us how wine being there every day. Whether it was is made, stored, bottled, and marketed. a stroll to class, a walk across the Ponte Study abroad changed my perspective Professor Cinotti examined Italian-style Vecchio, a jog from my apartment to on life, and taught me that goals cooking and placed the cuisine into the Christmas market at Piazza Santa can be reached. Human interaction, nutritional and historical perspective. Croce, a bike ride around the city walls, friendship, memories, and making the Prior to studying abroad in Italy I had or sitting in Piazza Duomo admiring most of every day is how life is lived been critical of the food system in Brunelleschi’s incredible Dome, I never to the fullest. I have gained a deep America, but through this course I came forgot how lucky I was to be living in admiration for Italian culture and have to further understand why we have so historic Florence. I miss the busy streets, realized that you need to live where you many diet-related health issues in the tiny cars, scooters, and crowds of are happy. I am happy in Italy. I cannot US. We studied the “Mediterranean” people. There was always something to wait to return there after graduation.

Globetrotter 32 Photo: CC fiveten CC Photo: FLORENCE PRESCRIPTION: INDEPENDENCE EMILY Sperber ’17 She stared back at me blankly, her white coat could be happening right now; I just can’t take to think that the time it took to talk about it crisp and precise; it lay flat in a sterile manner. it.” was a waste, when in fact I had wasted all of I shifted my weight from one foot to the other. those opportunities to grow, become more The pristine atmosphere of the farmacia made She responded to my slight breakdown calmly, independent, and learn. I had been keeping me feel out of place. At this point my runny just how I knew she would: “I’m sorry, Em, but myself ignorant and dependent for so long. noise wouldn’t cease, my head felt as if it could things happen and now you have to work on explode, and every time I made the effort dealing with what you have been given.” So as I stood in this all-white room I knew that to speak I was reminded that my voice had I was uncomfortable and that it wasn’t going vanished without any warning. I knew she was right, but I wished she were to be easy, but I was going to get myself out more sympathetic to my predicament. I wanted of this mess. I needed to push myself outside I had hoped that the language barrier wouldn’t to curl up in a ball on the family couch, with my comfort zone. Breaking down my barriers be too extreme. For the most part, in Florence, a pillow, and the blanket I’ve had since I was was the only way to earn that independence there is plenty of English spoken. In many three. Instead, I was stuck in a new city, with that I set out to find when I decided to come instances I find this to be a bit of a letdown but new people, in a new bed, and no Netflix or dog to Florence. for this isolated situation I had been banking or mom to take care of me while sick. Talking on the corrupting influence of tourism to be a to my mom made my body ache all the more As the lady in the white coat continued to stare positive force by my side. This, however, was and it unsettled me. Up to this point I hadn’t at me, I chose to make use of everything I had not the case. The stern-faced woman in the felt true “homesickness.” I felt a strong pull in available. I showed her the list of medications white coat barely spoke a lick of English. the pit of my stomach, a yearning to be back I had written down from the talk with my dad. in my habitat and gone from this foreign place. That didn’t work very well. I started to play “Buongiorno,” I said, “I was wondering if you charades: exaggerated gestures to act out my could assist me in finding some medicine to During the Skype call, my dad had walked into symptoms. I pointed to my nose and pretended help me with my cold.” the conversation and was soon caught up on to blow it. The pharmacist’s face lit up; she what was going on. As my dad he was worried smiled and indicated for me to wait a moment. She shook her head sharply and responded about me, but as a doctor he immediately dug She disappeared into the back room while I with a definitive, “Non capisco.” into the medical side of things. He shot off waited anxiously. She reappeared with a small what seemed like a million-and-one questions; blue box. I wasn’t convinced it was the right Her big, dark eyes peered back at me. Without this is how it is to have a doctor dad. As soon medicine for me. Nevertheless, I paid for the waiting for my response, she picked up a small as I answered his stream of inquiry, he rattled item, and left. book off the high, immaculate counter. and off a long list of prescriptions. He said, “Now quickly started flipping through pages. I jumped listen, Em, what I’m saying is important. You It didn’t really matter to me anymore, sick at the loud WHIP that the pages made; each will want to go to the pharmacy and ask or not. I had made a huge discovery about turn of the page was just as startling as the last. for: pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine, and myself. I was capable of so much more than I diphenhydramine.” had known. I didn’t know this because I never Fighting my urge to turn around and give up pushed myself out of the sheltered box I’d been on this risky excursion, I forced myself to keep I looked into the computer camera with what raised in. This isn’t to say I had a bad upbringing. my feet rooted to the white tile floor. I looked must have been a stunned expression. I never I speak to the fact that it was time for me to down to the piece of paper I was clutching. It had to figure out what medications to buy when step up and take responsibility for myself and was crumpled now, and a little damp from my I was sick at home. I always had my dad there my actions. I had always relied on my parents to sweaty palm. As I unfolded the paper, I could to assess the situation and decide what I should take care of me, and I had never really tried to feel the white coat’s eyes boring into me. I tried take. He had always tried to explain what each see what I could accomplish by myself. to stay calm but my mind kept wandering. All I thing was called and what its purpose was, but I Since coming to Florence I have done more could think of was how much I wished I could was never interested. I would nod my head and changing than I have ever done before. It has be home, in my bed. I thought: why did I even say, “uh-huh” when needed, but I never really been trying at times, but overall I feel better bother trying to do this? I should have just took note of what he was trying to teach me. for learning how to be independent. I respect stayed back at the apartment. I knew that my dad was frustrated by my lack myself more than when I stood idle while of interest and enthusiasm for knowledge and others did for me, as I watched on the sidelines. It had been my mom’s words of advice that got experience, but he never failed to try to teach This is why I came here. I can’t wait to push my me out of bed. I had called her on Skype that me what he could. I suddenly felt a surge of limits further. morning. I thought, mistakenly, that it would guilt because of the many times my dad had make me feel better. I explained to her, “I feel made the extra effort, while the “nuisance” sick.” Then I whined, “I don’t know how this of trying to learn would annoy me. I used

33 Globetrotter VENICE BIENNALE 2015 Intensive Summer Experience

THE PROGRAM dell’Accademia, Scuola San Rocco, Punta della COSTS The Venice Biennale: Intensive Summer Dogana, and the Biennale festival. Participants The program cost of $6,500 includes: tuition Experience is an intensive four-week combined will also explore Venice’s outlying islands and and program fees; accommodation (double studio art/art history program offered other significant sites in the Veneto region. occupancy, refundable security of $300 jointly by Marist College and the Lorenzo Additional faculty from both Marist and LdM required); entrance pass to the Biennale de’Medici Institute (LdM). The program offers will offer guest lectures to complement the di Venezia festival; vaporetto pass; pre- participants a unique opportunity to explore instruction and direction offered by Professors departure guides, orientation, and post- and immerse themselves in the world’s oldest Smith and Gradi. All lectures will be in English program materials; welcome and farewell and most prestigious art exposition, drawing or with an English translator. dinner; advisor/staff support; and wireless inspiration from the city of Venice and works Internet access during the program. of global contemporary artists featured at PROGRAM DATES Biennale sites. June 5 to July 5, 2015 The cost of the program does not include: airfare; meals and miscellaneous living Under the direction of Marist Professor Ed APPLICATION DEADLINE expenses; individual art materials; personal Smith, a Guggenheim Fellow and an Associate February 27, 2015 (but students are strongly expenses, transportation, and excursions; and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculpture, encouraged to apply as soon as possible to passport or visa expenses. and LdM Professor Elisa Gradi, curator, secure a place on the program). consultant, and supervisor of art history at APPLICATION INFORMATION LdM, program participants will expand their REQUIREMENTS Contact assistant coordinator skills in Art and Art History through two three- Studio art or digital media majors with an Emily Pasquerello: credit courses: ART 358: Venice Biennale and interest in art history are encouraged to apply. [email protected] International Influence (Studio); and ART Students should have previous experience 315 Venice Biennale (Art History). Course and/or demonstrated artistic ability. For ACADEMIC INFORMATION methodologies include a combination of application details see: italy.marist.edu/ Contact program director Professor Ed Smith: on-site lectures, studio art workshops, and biennale. As close mentoring of program [email protected] critiques designed to engage students in the participants is a priority, space is limited in the exploration of contemporary art and culture. program. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Each participant will be assigned a studio space, italy.marist.edu/biennale and participants will have the opportunity HOUSING to develop a body of studio work, while Students are placed in apartment-style experiencing Venice, including museums such residences in central Venice. as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Galleries

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35 Globetrotter MARIST IN Ghana: Medical Experience Photos: Amy Cahill Prof.

On the Ground in Ghana Prof. Amy Cahill

In the summer of 2013, Marist science students region near the Togo border to visit traditional which the Ghanaian lifestyle can be depicted set out on an adventure as part of the Ghana healing shrines in two different communities. leads me again to contemplate what it means Medical Experience program. The upper-level We met with spiritual healers, herbalists, a to be truly healthy.” Another student, Nikki biology course focuses on understanding the shaman, and members of the community Kuhar, commented that “although our time biology of common diseases in West Africa, who explained the value of traditional African in the clinic was limited and I could only do the influence of poverty, and the health care medicine. Students also observed traditional so much, it changed the way I envisioned my system of Ghana. Students examine a variety of rituals including dancing, drumming, pouring future. I now know that returning to Ghana, or health topics through a lecture series at Marist libations, breathing in healing smoke, and the another developing country, is exactly what I College in the spring and then contextualize elaborate and lengthy sacrifice of animals. want to do.” the material and information firsthand by volunteering in rural clinics in Ghana, visiting Another emphasis of the course was to By the end of the trip, the students had health care facilities throughout the country, explore the dichotomy between the types gained a new perspective on health care. Tom and embarking upon an integrated cultural of health care issues found in the rural and Pustorino praised the experience since “it is study program. urban areas of the country. Students heard one thing to read articles in class about life from Ghanaians about these issues through in a certain area, but you cannot get a true During the 2013 spring semester, students lectures and seminars at the School of Public understanding of the real-life situations that attended weekly lectures by guest speakers Health at the University of Ghana, the Center are going on in a country until you have had a who covered topics including the biology for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, and hands-on experience.” Based on the lectures of HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, parasitic the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research. and readings, most students went into the infections, medical diagnostics, medical The students then had the opportunity to trip believing that a shortage of trained health botany, poverty, and the culture of Ghana. see the differences for themselves by visiting professionals and insufficient education Students read literature from peer-reviewed major hospitals and research facilities in the were responsible for many of Ghana’s health journals, faculty-generated handouts, and cities and small clinics and midwiferies in the issues. Afterwards, students instead cited excerpts from books on a weekly basis to rural areas. an insufficient infrastructure and the poor supplement the lecture series. economy as having the most significant impact Our travels led us through Accra, Cape Coast, on health care in the country. Prior to traveling to Africa, students learned Kumasi, Mole National Park, and finally to about the structure of health care in Ghana. Tamale where students spent several days The trip to Ghana was not without its Most Ghanaians are registered with the volunteering in small rural clinics. At the challenges, of course. The heat, frequent country’s universal health insurance plan clinics, students helped mostly with record lack of running water, and different food and pay a deductible based on their annual keeping and weighing babies, but with a little made day-to-day living more difficult and income. While registered Ghanaians pay very training they were able to administer malaria certainly less familiar than at home. However, little for health care, the availability of medical finger-prick tests and oral vaccinations. A the opportunity to work and learn side by facilities varies dramatically throughout the few students even traveled by motorcycle to side with Ghanaians in their country was country. Many Ghanaians, especially those in participate in outreach programs with their one that was repeatedly viewed as a “life- rural areas, choose to seek treatment through clinics to administer polio vaccines. changing experience” by the students, and any herbal medicine and/or spiritual healers since challenges faced were in the end crucial to this traditionally the sick are believed to require While the students did “help” at the clinics, transformational experience. both physical and spiritual healing. they were the ones who really benefited the most from their time there. Many admired Marist International Programs and the School One of our primary goals in Ghana was to be and commented on the strong sense of of Science and Policy will be offering a similar able to explore the intersection of traditional community that they observed in the clinics. program and course in 2015. Watch marist. and modern medicine. After arriving in the One student, Hilary Wiggins, noted, “This edu/international for updates! capital city of Accra, we traveled to the Volta positive attitude and amiable manner by

Globetrotter 36 MARIST IN Ghana: Medical Experience

My Experience Audre Hirtelen-Booker ’14

In summer of 2013, as part of Marist’s Ghana Other planned activities had us going to Kakum contamination, improper dosages, incorrect Medical Experience program, a group of National Park, with its breathtaking canopy herbs, etc. twenty-four students and faculty traveled to walkway, Mole National Park with its up-close the West African country. Our first full day view of wildlife such as elephants, warthogs, There are so many barriers to accessing the began with a lecture on “do’s and don’ts” while and baboons, and the beautiful Brenu beach. modern health care system. Many lives could in Ghana, and a lesson on a few helpful phrases In Cape Coast, we were separated into small potentially be saved with better access to in Twi, which is a part of the Akan language. groups for a homestay experience. This treatment for illnesses ranging from simple We were then taken to our first immersion helped us to better understand the household infections to major diseases such as TB, HIV, activity, where we walked through the main dynamic of some Ghanaian families. We also and cancers. Such barriers include poverty, market in Accra; it was overwhelming. There toured Elmina Castle Dungeon and explored poor transportation, and lack of education. I were so many people in close quarters, selling the beginnings of the trans-Atlantic slave want to stress that herbal and natural plant everything imaginable. Men and women trade. Walking on the very ground, and remedies are not inherently bad. Organizations hissed and grabbed at our arms to look at their through the same path on which around 3 such as the Center for Scientific Research into million African slaves walked, suffered and Plant Medicine are working towards making died, was one of the most disconcerting, yet these medicines safer. emotionally stirring and powerful experiences of my life. All of these experiences gave us Before beginning this adventure in Ghana, I invaluable insight into the culture, history, and expected the conditions of the organizations, environment of Ghana, which helped us better hospitals, and clinics to be shabbier and analyze the health care system. unkempt. I thought that the medical instruments would look more primitive than Through visiting various health care facilities those we use in America. Despite not having and participating in an internship, we top-notch health care, with the lack of trained were able to experience how the health professionals, money, and medical supplies in care system operates in Ghana. We spoke general, the medical system in Ghana is on a with health care professionals, shadowed slow path of improvement. physicians, and observed in laboratories and pharmacies. During our internships we were Although this was a medical experience, the able to perform basic tasks, such as taking program did not fail to immerse us in the blood pressure, weighing babies, and reading Ghanaian culture outside of the hospitals. It blood test results. Through these activities we is a beautiful country with incredibly strong, learned about commonly seen diseases and positive, and welcoming people. This trip patient care, and experienced the conditions brought me out of my comfort zone and in which patients are cared for and in which allowed me and twenty-three other people the health care professionals work. to plunge into an entirely different way of life for three weeks! Our activities were culturally merchandise. At first, the sales tactics seemed In addition to observing modern health care enriching, as well as eye-opening. I now have a aggressive to us “Obruni” (foreigners), but the methods, we also learned about the use of better perspective on the differences between people of Ghana were generally very friendly traditional and herbal remedies for healing. our culture and system of health care and and welcoming. Simply venturing into any Traditional and herbal medicine is highly those of an impoverished country. I feel so market was undoubtedly an experience within valued in the Ghanaian culture. It can be quite fortunate to be awarded this opportunity itself. The day ended with one of the highlights helpful for certain types of illness, but it can to broaden my horizons and learn from of the trip, authentic African drumming and also pose great risks, for example: remedies experience in the field, firsthand. dance, as well as traditional cuisine. prepared or applied in unsterile environments,

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43 Globetrotter “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the GLOBETROTTER things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw Reflections from Abroad Marist College off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

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